Example sentences of "not [verb] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 2 | All this about Fenna was entirely true , but she would not have said it , would not have known how to shape such sentences . |
| 3 | Perhaps I should not have said that . ’ |
| 4 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 5 | Robert would not have said that the fanlight was almost obliterated with bird droppings . |
| 6 | He was still inside her , but softened and withdrawn , and she could not have said honestly that the experience was an exciting one . |
| 7 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 8 | He saw the death of his son , a placenta previa child who died during Lili 's labour , as direct vengeance , though he could not have said who was exacting it . |
| 9 | ( Though in fact she would not have said ‘ lumbered ’ , not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view , but because she was an honourable and exact woman . |
| 10 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 11 | If he had chosen to confide in anyone then he could not have said clearly what was the summit of his aspiration . |
| 12 | Two years ago she would not have said ‘ an' all' , but , ‘ too ’ . |
| 13 | The main reason why scholars have thought that the forged passages conferring the primacy were already in the documents in 1072 is that , if they were not there , Lanfranc could not have said that these papal letters were the ultimum robur of his whole case . |
| 14 | Dr Tariq would not have said that he liked the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council , but he admired him . |
| 15 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 16 | Sometimes this pleased him and sometimes it made him feel frightened , though he could not have said why . |
| 17 | Jasper knew she was pretending , though he could not have said how he knew . |
| 18 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 19 | Even Hazel could not have said a word for his life . |
| 20 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 21 | ‘ I should not have said that , ’ she reluctantly admitted . |
| 22 | I was certain , although I could not have said why , that if I did not answer correctly this might well be the end . |
| 23 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 24 | ‘ He should not have said it . |
| 25 | While he may not have said in so any words that these encounters with the press had been an " eye-opener , he did remember that he had been sincerely treated by the Journalists courtesy and by the beneficent power of journalism in the modern world . " |
| 26 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 27 | It seemed the right thing to do , though he could not have said why . |
| 28 | He could not have said more plainly , ‘ It will soon be you and I. ’ There was an understanding between them . |
| 29 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 30 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |