Example sentences of "[verb] not tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have enough honour not to tell that lie . |
| 2 | One of the Santas turned out to be Kim on a moonlight from Simon 's Boozebuster operation , but I promised not to tell . |
| 3 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 4 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Professor Vallar has not told us what he thinks . |
| 6 | There are some things that God has not told us , and therefore we do not know . |
| 7 | ‘ We are concerned she may be a young girl who became pregnant and has not told her parents , or is a young girl in care who ran off and had the baby over the Christmas weekend . |
| 8 | Mr Cross has not told us what he did with Hiatt 's stock of leg irons when their export was banned in 1984 , nor has he told us about Hiatt 's attempts to export ‘ extended ’ cuffs which the government has now included in the ban . |
| 9 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 10 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 11 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 13 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 14 | He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country . |
| 15 | However , a firm may treat a client or counterparty as a market counterparty by virtue of its status as a member of a listed category only if : ( 1 ) The investment is of the right kind ; this will mean seeking information in advance from overseas persons as to the kinds of investment they regularly deal in and , if necessary , from exchange members as to the kinds of investment dealt in on the exchange ; ( 2 ) Normally , the firm notifies the client or counterparty in writing in advance that it will be treated as a market counterparty ( so that a notification is essential , except as referred to below ) and he has not told the firm that he does not want to be treated as a market counterparty in relation to the investments concerned . |
| 16 | She made me promise not to tell what had happened . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll show you something , ’ she said , ‘ if you 'll promise not to tell Mummy . ’ |
| 18 | I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma . |
| 19 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 20 | I sweated in the spotlight and tried not to tell them anything . |
| 21 | ‘ Lee has n't told me about you , ’ said Lee 's Mum . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ John has n't told me where he is because he says it 's best that I do n't know , then I ca n't be tempted to tell anyone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Your father is so proud of you , there 's hardly a customer that he has n't told about your great success . ’ |
| 24 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But she has n't told you ? ’ |
| 26 | He has n't told anyone how frustrated he is . |
| 27 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 28 | OK , so will it be in the next announcement or is it in there already and IBM Corp just has n't told anybody about it yet ? |
| 29 | She has n't told anyone |
| 30 | ‘ Ted has n't told you one of his jokes , has he ? |