Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did so want to tell you how I felt , but I just … just could n't seem to , somehow . |
| 2 | She asked me straight out once what it was , but I did not want to tell her yet . |
| 3 | And indeed , did not continue to tell her what that something else had been , but invited , ‘ Would you like to tell me how it came that , however badly , you attempted to impersonate your journalist sister ? ’ |
| 4 | She did not ask the outcome of last night 's argument and was relieved when Rose did not offer to tell her . |
| 5 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | But I did n't bother to tell him just how wrong he was . |
| 8 | ‘ You are Miss Claudia Adams , owner of a dress shop and also a model , ’ he stated , his voice heavy with sarcasm , and Claudia , annoyed that he should call her beautiful showroom a dress shop , did n't bother to tell him she was n't a model . |
| 9 | She did n't bother to tell me that she 'd only got to call you , right ? |
| 10 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 11 | I did n't want to tell her about the light in the locked room , or about Mr Ross . |
| 12 | As void and null as her feeble attempts to find out what he did n't want to tell her the night of the paella . |
| 13 | I did n't want to tell her because I thought she 'd give up . |
| 14 | Sarin did n't want to tell me , then he said I 'd know soon enough , and better from him than over the radio . |
| 15 | When I asked her things like that , she did n't want to tell me on other occasions , she said I know that I ca n't tell you . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't want to tell you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't want to tell you , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ Gran , I did n't want to tell you , especially now , but you must understand . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't want to tell you I saw him that last night , for … well … |
| 20 | But I did n't want to tell you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh Rosa , ’ said Caterina , squirming under her elder 's nastiness , ‘ I did n't want to tell you . ’ |
| 22 | I did n't want to tell you . |
| 23 | I did n't want to tell you about Moira — ’ |
| 24 | No , I did n't want to tell you about her , because I did n't want her story to become yours . |
| 25 | Believe me , Juliet , I did n't want to tell you this , but if I had n't I know Celia would , and she does n't know the true facts . ’ |
| 26 | Oh I did n't want to tell you this Phil , but |
| 27 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 28 | I went through the reception , and I was shaking ; I mean I did n't need to tell them I was on drugs , they could tell the drugs were on me . |
| 29 | The problems were , was that the schools , since they were doing this , they assumed that all schools did this , therefore they did n't need to talk about it , they did n't need to tell them about it . |
| 30 | He did n't need to tell her that . |