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Example sentences of "had not told " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife .
2	Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me .
3	Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession .
4	Only June and Ethel knew who his father was and now they were both gone and they had not told anyone .
5	Would it have been better if , like other men , he had not told her ?
6	He had not told her , and could not tell her , about his secret theft .
7	So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’
8	She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory .
9	Since Rhodes she had known ( since he told her ) how he had met the Flemish woman in Lindos ; and had equally known ( although he had not told her ) that Katelina van Borselen had somehow been persuaded or forced into commerce with him .
10	He understood at once why she had not told him ; he remembered the glass of milk in the café , and for the first time in weeks he was able to weep .
11	Mother Francis had not told Eve about the letter .
12	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 .
13	By March 1990 Navan Resources still had not told the islanders the extent of the gold find or their plans for it .
14	My own reaction at the time — a guilty feeling of my own inadequacy as both feeder and fed , mingled with a wish that she had not told me — indicates that this is an important piece of information .
15	He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship .
16	Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive .
17	— No , said Davin , but I wish you had not told me .
18	He had not told his parents where he was .
19	‘ Mr Carpenter had not told us anyone else was coming . ’
20	The only new thing I could add was the prison bit , and Mrs McDougall had not told the girls anything about the offence of which Ewen had been convicted .
21	What Myeloski had not told Duncan was that the Cathedral of the Assumption was where the coronation of Russia 's rulers had traditionally taken place , that the last of these great ceremonies was in 1896 , when Nicholas was crowned as tsar and became Russia 's last Romanov emperor .
22	She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed .
23	It is implicit from her statement that , according to her , Mr. Steed , too , had not told her that he had appointed her to be his attorney .
24	She had not told Ben that the house was now in her name .
25	She had not told her friend the truth .
26	I realized I had not told anybody where I was going .
27	I had not told my Reed cousins about our wedding , but I had written to my uncle , John Eyre , in Madeira .
28	Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her .
29	Mary had not told anybody either .
30	She had not told Tony either , because she knew he 'd want her to have an abortion , and she would have refused , and this would have split them up .