Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | So suppose Rabbit wants to tell Pooh the truth about honey , and believes the relevant truth to be the proposition , P , that there is some . |
| 2 | That 's why his desire to tell Pooh the truth will in fact make him tell Pooh what he believes , whether that is actually true or not . |
| 3 | And this will make Pooh 's inference from Eeyore 's sigh to what Eeyore believes safer than his inference from Rabbit 's words to what Rabbit believes : because that inference does depend on Rabbit 's wanting to tell Pooh the truth , whereas , as we 've remarked , he may in fact be lying . |
| 4 | Richard was never afraid to tell Emlyn the truth . |
| 5 | Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth . |
| 6 | Now she decides it is time to tell Pearl the truth . |
| 7 | Afraid to tell Leopold the truth , Wolfgang wrote to a family friend , the Abbé Bullinger , asking him to inform his father of his wife 's death . |
| 8 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 9 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |