Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] be told " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must n't be told , he 'd said . |
| 2 | Bee Moore , who worked in Westlands and was a sister of Paccy Moore the shoemaker , had heard that Eve was dead from horrible injuries and that Benny was in such shock she could n't be told . |
| 3 | You will not be told how much he earns ; but you will be told that the reports of £1 million a year are exaggerated and distorted ( half that is nearer the mark ) ; you will be told , too , that in his fourth year at the Bar he was earning less than a Manchester bus driver — without overtime . |
| 4 | But you wo n't be told , either , about the voluntary work he puts into training and helping young barristers . |
| 5 | Yes but you wo n't be told , I mean |
| 6 | ‘ They would n't be told . |
| 7 | No it 's not , he says but , they ca n't be told . |
| 8 | There are stone pots and earthenware ones with luxury glazes , ancient pots that you find at house sales in the country , and , of course , plastic pots which now come textured and coloured so closely to terracotta that they can not be told apart . |
| 9 | It is matched only by the insistence of the anonymous reviewer of the TLS that in The Lord of the Rings all the good and bad sides do is try to kill each other , so that they can not be told apart : ‘ Morally there seems nothing to choose between them . ’ |
| 10 | Because the ‘ players ’ in an information-based organization are specialists , they can not be told how to do their work . |
| 11 | In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else . |
| 12 | You should have seen the butter he put on his toast in the mornings , I kept on at him but you know what he was like , he would n't be told . |
| 13 | No I 've warned Ron he 's such an obstinate so and so , he wo n't be told ! |