Example sentences of "[adv] i [modal v] not tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't tell you , but I 'm sure it 'll go no further . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't tell you this , but — but one of the walled gardens is locked up . |
| 3 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
| 4 | So I can not tell you now , I ca n't remember where the quarry was whether it was North Wales Quarry , whether it was Slate Quarry down in in in |
| 5 | And I did n't have any Treas keys so I could n't tell them to use the help service . |
| 6 | Well to be honest Ja I ca n't see that far normally from where I live I can see the White Horse bank but it 's shrouded in mist at the moment erm no I ca n't see so I could n't tell you whether there there is snow up there or not . |
| 7 | Oh it was very good in the war time , cos there was only just I ca n't tell you now . |
| 8 | So now I ca n't tell you but I |
| 9 | Yes , yes well as I say , you 're coming into the shop and I do n't know what was in now I could n't tell you , but anyway |
| 10 | Father Jankowski looked at me so kindly I could not tell him . |
| 11 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 12 | Yeah well I ca n't tell you unless I 've got them can I ? |
| 13 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 14 | Did n't get a telephone till nineteen well I could n't tell you really . |
| 15 | Er my favourite thing er well I could n't tell you that . |
| 16 | I 've got everything right , actually what I did and I could n't give you , I have n't got a clue , trigonometry , well I could n't tell you how to do it , I should |
| 17 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
| 18 | Unfortunately I ca n't tell you any more about it yet . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Unfortunately I ca n't tell you how long that will be , ’ Luke inserted drily as she pushed open the door . |
| 20 | Course I sha n't tell her tha , I , course I shall tell her if I find her smoking in or near the wood |
| 21 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 22 | What er caused them to put that for the er group forward I could not tell you , but that 's what he stood for , this protestant action . |