Example sentences of "say [pron] [verb] n't [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mind you the scriptures say they do n't definite your sting and , can you explain that ? |
| 2 | If she wants to fight on she 'll have to pay and she says she has n't enough money . |
| 3 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 4 | He said I have n't those for years ! |
| 5 | She said she had n't any but they would n't listen . |
| 6 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 7 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 8 | Ca n't say we did n't half expect it , I suppose , by this time . |
| 9 | ‘ The Thing did say they do n't all grow to twelve feet , ’ said Angalo , in the silence . |