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Example sentences of "[verb] not tell [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers .
3	‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar .
4	However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description .
5	However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved .
6	The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase .
7	Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made .
8	‘ You did n't tell her about the collar ? ’
9	He did n't tell me about the death-threat .
10	‘ You did n't tell me about the music festival starting next week in Pollensa — every Sunday for a month in the cloisters of Santo Domingo . ’
11	With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers .
12	She did n't tell him about the snake .
13	I did n't tell him about the handbill I had found ; indeed , I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence .
14	Did n't tell him about the er row of eights on there .
15	We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already .
16	No no she did n't tell us about the loft .
17	‘ I 'd prefer it if you did n't tell anyone at the circuit how we come to know each other , ’ Simon said , his grey eyes trained on the road ahead .
18	I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening .
19	Mr Yossi Sarid , of the leftwing opposition Citizens Rights Movement , quoted from the lyrics : ‘ Do n't tell me about the girl who lost her eye .
20	Do n't tell me about the girl who lost her childhood . ’
21	Cos one two two or three things associated with this contract if you do n't if you surprise them with erm with them face to face and you do n't tell them on the phone they 'll blow you out .
22	Erm so but I wanted to point out two or three things on this contract that if you do n't tell them on the phone about them before you get round there they they 'll use it
23	If you if there are certain things that if you do n't tell them on the phone , including the price , we tell we talk price .
24	‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya
25	If you do n't tell them about the deposit cheque if you do n't tell them about the banker 's order they will say , Well just a minute Ron you did n't tell me that on the phone .
26	If you do n't tell them about the deposit cheque if you do n't tell them about the banker 's order they will say , Well just a minute Ron you did n't tell me that on the phone .
27	‘ Please do n't tell anyone in the village that you 've seen me , ’ begged the girl .
28	Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call .
29	But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin .
30	Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) .