Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , it 's not the use of language that distinguishes being told the truth from other ways of finding it out : it 's the fact that when we tell people the truth , we do so by getting them to believe what we believe . |
| 2 | And why , as tellers , when we want to tell people the truth , do we do so by telling them instead what we believe ? |
| 3 | And yet , when I want to tell people the truth , what I will in fact do is try to get them to believe what I believe . |
| 4 | So that ca n't be why , when we want to tell people the truth about what 's going on , what we actually do is try to give them our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 5 | The " atmosphere of ideological domineering " had been replaced by freedom of thought and glasnost , and leaders had at last begun to tell people the truth . |