Example sentences of "say [that] i do n't [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I must be honest and say that I do n't think I 'll ever run that fast .
2 When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back .
3 I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police .
4 ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’
5 And beaming proudly the 47-year-old superstar declared at London 's Heathrow airport : ‘ Never let it be said that I do n't carry the baby . ’
6 ‘ In any case , I 've already said that I do n't want to fight any more with anybody .
7 I I I 've already said that I do n't accept that er the French are unlikely to ratify er I think rather the contrary but that remains finally for them er and not for me .
8 Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration .
9 That 's my reason for saying that I do n't think the western relief road gives very much environmental relief to the A sixty one .
10 I think I might have his conscience by saying that I do n't mind .
11 ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’
12 I 'm saying that I do n't know what local preference is , in terms of where it should go .
13 I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love .
14 and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues .
15 If I have , e I have to say that I do n't think that the particular version of the inner northern route had its junction with the southern bypass moved to the west .
16 ‘ And just who dares to say that I do n't look after my son properly ?
17 ‘ I was going to say that I do n't know of anybody who could have killed my uncle . ’
18 ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do .
19 ‘ Let's just say that I do n't think Bertha would appreciate your particular brand of sympathy .
20 No , no I can , I can honestly say that I do n't think there was any , any what you can call rough families as I can remember .
21 I need hardly say that I do n't care to have things so .
22 Although I would also say that I do n't suppose there are very many Councillors that do n't actually , at the end of the day , being a Councillor is costing them a lot of money and those members ' allowances are very , very small and they certainly in my case nowhere near cover the cost of being a County Councillor .
23 ‘ I can only say that I do n't remember any of this , ’ I said carefully .
24 Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers .
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