Example sentences of "not [verb] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must not stay to tell you his sweet sayings , save one . |
| 2 | ‘ Why do you not want to tell your parents ? ’ |
| 3 | She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing . |
| 4 | She asked me straight out once what it was , but I did not want to tell her yet . |
| 5 | I shall go to him to tell him that you want to speak to him personally and do not want to tell anybody else the reason . |
| 6 | And you might not want to tell me , if it 's bad . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you do remember , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ but you do not want to tell me . |
| 8 | The Tsar has not heard tell of him and wo n't know him ; maybe he will be allowed to join the wedding procession . " |
| 9 | Had this village really not heard tell of the miracle-working Gabriel ? |
| 10 | And , we 're not in doing , not intend telling you at the er , proposals we will put in the budget , but I can give you an assurance at this point in time , that we shall be borrowing money . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not goin' to tell me you bought a book as well . ’ |
| 12 | You will not need telling that good relationships with your local press , radio and television are essential — but how do you do it ? |
| 13 | They did not need telling twice . |
| 14 | That is a great deal of money Minnie which I do not need to tell you and would without doubt enable me to bring over my first-born at long last . |
| 15 | I do not need to tell you the potential problems and chaos that the delay is causing to the reorganisation of the leagues next season . |
| 16 | People who have HIV or AIDS are not a danger to others and they do not need to tell people at school , at work or people that they meet every day . |
| 17 | She could not wait to tell Sheila and Mona . |
| 18 | As with the unconscious , of course , what is not said tells us as much as , or more than , what is said . |
| 19 | Gabriel Napier , however , did not neglect to tell Lord Ilay that the failure of his sheriffship to provide adequate compensation for his services was only a partial explanation of his financial embarrassment . |
| 20 | He may not choose to tell us all he knows … . |
| 21 | Samson replied : ‘ If I truly knew what would be best both for you and us , I should not hesitate to tell you . |
| 22 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |
| 23 | All the same , he did not dare tell Balanchine ‘ it 's not working ’ , he thought he must try . |
| 24 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 25 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 26 | They 're not going to tell you anything … |
| 27 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ muttered Phoebe ; she was not going to tell this woman that for the last six months she had done practically nothing else . |
| 28 | Peter Yeo winced inwardly , but he was not going to tell Andy Barton that Angela was missing , or express any of his reservations about how much influence Angela could bring to bear . |
| 29 | It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt . |
| 30 | ‘ And you 're not going to tell me why ? ’ |