Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 2 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 3 | ‘ Not until you tell me the truth . ’ |
| 4 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 5 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 6 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 7 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 8 | If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report . |
| 9 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 10 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |