Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [not/n't] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He also kept a diary of sorts though most of the entries do n't tell you much . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ History books do n't tell it the way it was , ’ she murmured . |
| 3 | Your books do not tell the whole story . |
| 4 | If candidates ' responses do not tell you what you need to know then follow up your initial question with a more specific one . |
| 5 | But some people do n't , Adeleine got that , his parents do n't tell him to get on with it , half , half the people at school they got that |
| 6 | Unlike historical documents , archaeological sites and their finds do not tell us anything directly . |
| 7 | The contents do n't tell me much , except both men have a feeble taste in clothes . |
| 8 | But these conventions do not tell us anything about the student 's facility with abstraction nor about his or her logical performance . |
| 9 | Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story . |
| 10 | In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What the manuals do n't tell you is that when the application is removed , the responsibility for removing or reversing changes made to the INI files falls upon you . |
| 13 | Dates do n't tell the truth . |
| 14 | Bodies do n't tell lies . ’ |
| 15 | Moreover , stateless societies are either small tribal societies , or small communities within a larger political system , and their political arrangements do not tell us a great deal that is relevant to the great majority of human societies . |
| 16 | Also an empirical examination of relatively low level lawyers reported here shows that by and large lawyers do not tell clients what they want ; clients tell lawyers the outcome they wish for . |
| 17 | Editor , — We wish to correct several inaccuracies in Tony Smith 's review of What Doctors Do n't Tell You . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , what may appear obvious to all but ourselves , even our best friends do n't tell us . |
| 19 | Léandre Schlegel ( 1844–1913 ) is represented by the sixth , somewhat characterless , piece of Der arme Peter , which I assume to be a ‘ suite ’ of some sort ( Willem Noske 's otherwise intelligent and informative notes do not tell us ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And if we have £400,000 in there which is n't really £400,000 , then the accounts do n't tell you what 's going on . ’ |
| 22 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 23 | Medical audit advisory groups do not tell us their procedures to prevent gossip and simplistic interpretation of raw statistics weighing on the minds of family health services authority managers with discretionary powers . |
| 24 | As the Investors Chronicle of 18 September pointed out , most building societies do not tell their savers when one of their accounts ceases to be marketed to new investors , even if the existing investor could obtain a much better rate of interest by switching to another account with the same society . |
| 25 | And the boys do n't tell me things these days . |
| 26 | Weekly budgets do n't tell life stories . |
| 27 | However , the laws do not tell us what the universe should have looked like when it started — it would still be up to God to wind up the clockwork and choose how to start it off . |
| 28 | If he ever arrived at that most famous of all Dwarf Holds the Dwarf records do not tell . |
| 29 | The specifications of these tasks do not tell us what a goal state is . |
| 30 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |