Example sentences of "[vb past] not tell him " in BNC.
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1 | She was so glad that Len was back by her side , and yet she dared not tell him why , because he would only be angry and perhaps start a fight and worry afterwards anyway . |
2 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
3 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
4 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
5 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
6 | So they did not tell him where Jesus was , but made their way home without going back to Jerusalem . |
7 | Since I am a mild and humane man , I did not tell him that it was utterly hopeless , but as a matter of deference to him I presented his formula to George Elvin , who declined to have anything to do with it . |
8 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
9 | I did not tell him I had actually spoken those words many miles away , at that exact moment on that night , because I could hardly understand how it happened myself . |
10 | Frightened for the Englishman , because she well knew that her brother had an uncontrollable temper , she did not tell him anything . |
11 | Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming . |
12 | So she did not tell him that she was too shaky later to resume the conversation for a different reason ; she did not describe to him — or to the readers of Blot — what ensued . |
13 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
14 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
15 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
16 | When Martin Bean returned with Alice — an Alice who was tear-stained but still young enough for tears to be part of the simple process of healing — Emmie and Oliver did not tell him about Mr Hellyer . |
17 | When she knew she was pregnant she did not tell him , she kept it secret . |
18 | I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that . |
19 | That did n't tell him much . |
20 | ‘ I did n't tell him . |
21 | When Mr Palmer arrived I did n't tell him I was caddying for Gary , and I do n't know whether he 'd forgotten or what , but when Gary says to me , ‘ OK , Tip , let's go , ’ Arnold looks at me and says , ‘ What are you doing , Tip ? ’ |
22 | ‘ I did n't tell him , ’ said John . |
23 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
24 | He did n't ask who it was and I did n't tell him . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I did n't tell him . |
27 | I refused because I was afraid for the baby , though I did n't tell him that . |
28 | Dolly said one had got in , that he threatened to do her in if she did n't tell him where all the valuables were . |
29 | He 'ad a knife and said he 'd do me in if I did n't tell him why we steamed the letter open . |
30 | Duncan did n't tell him that he would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS . |