Example sentences of "not say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sayin' he 'as n't been a good Samaritan , but I never thought he 'd beat me black and blue just for arguin' with him . ’ |
| 3 | But she dared not say anything . |
| 4 | He ca n't do that to us now — not say we 're doing it and then say we 're not , and killing old Bones ! |
| 5 | But we drive fourteen kilometres now and you not say — ’ |
| 6 | They exchange ‘ best not say any more ’ glances . |
| 7 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 8 | And to the normal layman that sounds better than not say nothing at all . |
| 9 | And I 'm asked every well not say every day of the week but most weeks I 'm asked somewhere well where are you gon na start from ? |
| 10 | Why do tyre retailers not say they are ( on the whole ) owned by tyre manufacturers , and why then do they sell competitors ' products ? |
| 11 | I dared not say any more , but my mother did n't mention Nour . |
| 12 | If not say now and we can go through it . |
| 13 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 14 | I dared not say a word in case you sent me packing for good . ’ |
| 15 | Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and wheys , along came a spider , along came a , no I not say along came a spider and sat down beside her , along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away |
| 16 | If not say |
| 17 | and from what I understood he was already married anyway , never , never was mentioned here , but I did hear it , whether it was true or not I 'm not say it , but I was told that he was already married and divorced to marry her , that was what I was told , no I mean I do n't know , but but I 'm damn sure that I know |
| 18 | Tallis 's case is convincing , though he has certainly not said the last word on the matter , and there may well be further arguments from those who are professionally engaged in linguistics . |
| 19 | Yet one picks it up , in hints and implications , in the not-quite-concealed exasperation of polite administrators , in the raised eyebrows and brief knowing smiles of senior academics on committees ; indeed , it is as much a matter of what is significantly not said , as of what is said ; in poststructuralist terms , of lacunae , vides , silences . |
| 20 | The UN has called on the Home Office to reconsider the ‘ humanitarian aspects ’ in his case , but has not said he deserves asylum . |
| 21 | The UN had not said he deserved political asylum . |
| 22 | Later she came to depend more upon excision , upon the evocation of what she called ‘ the thing not said ’ ; castigating Balzac for delivering an excess of information , she praised the hint , the pared-down suggestion . |
| 23 | He has not said whether he will consider taking a peerage . |
| 24 | Was it possible that her sister had taken on a new maid for the Fanshawes ' flat and not said anything about it ? |
| 25 | Stories appeared that were untrue , newspapers quoted things she had not said and she began to feel panicky . |
| 26 | Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted . |
| 27 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 28 | Though they had not said what time they would arrive , Vic was ready for his guests . |
| 29 | Have I not said so ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I have not said I will not come ! |