Example sentences of "not have told " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 2 | He could not have told where he went , or what time of day it was , except that dark was coming down . |
| 3 | What this sort of research will not have told you is anything about the advertising 's ability to stand out and attract attention when it appears in the chosen media . |
| 4 | They could not have told when the music tightened its hold and began its pull , but to Taliesin , afterwards , it was as if there was a moment when he knew that he was able to resist , and then another moment when he had surrendered completely . |
| 5 | They would not have told Alexei everything , of course . |
| 6 | ‘ And now you 've seen Jenny , have you learned anything that letter or telephone conversation would not have told you ? ’ |
| 7 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 8 | He could not have told them . |
| 9 | I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this . |
| 10 | ‘ Could you not have told her that we are n't strangers ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 11 | He should not have told his family . |
| 12 | The audience could not have told it apart from Christmas or the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . |
| 13 | Well , I 'll ask Ian , they , they might not have told us , because , I do n't know , they would have told us , would n't they ? |