Example sentences of "not [verb] to tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must not stay to tell you his sweet sayings , save one . |
| 2 | And you might not want to tell me , if it 's bad . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you do remember , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ but you do not want to tell me . |
| 4 | She asked me straight out once what it was , but I did not want to tell her yet . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not goin' to tell me you bought a book as well . ’ |
| 6 | That is a great deal of money Minnie which I do not need to tell you and would without doubt enable me to bring over my first-born at long last . |
| 7 | I do not need to tell you the potential problems and chaos that the delay is causing to the reorganisation of the leagues next season . |
| 8 | He may not choose to tell us all he knows … . |
| 9 | Samson replied : ‘ If I truly knew what would be best both for you and us , I should not hesitate to tell you . |
| 10 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |
| 11 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 12 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're not going to tell them you 're here ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And you 're not going to tell me why ? ’ |
| 15 | Labour front bencher Tony Banks added : ‘ You 're not going to tell me they are both now going to live a life of celibacy . |
| 16 | You 're not going to tell me you could feel her hands . |
| 17 | You are not going to tell me that you like her ? |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not going to tell me , are you ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not going to tell me , are you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So , ’ Anne persisted , following Robyn through to the bathroom , ‘ you 're not going to tell me who was at this party , or whether you had a good time , or even how you got wet ? ’ |
| 21 | But I ca n't tell you what it felt like , first of all having cancer , secondly trying to talk about it , and being continually asked , ‘ Well , how are you Jo ? ’ and you 'd see their eyes glaze over and they 'd think , ‘ Christ , I hope she 's not going to tell me ! ’ |
| 22 | It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt . |
| 23 | ‘ Here — you 're not going to tell him , are you ? |
| 24 | She looked beautiful , but he was not going to tell her so . |
| 25 | And , for the first time , he was not going to tell her . |
| 26 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 27 | So you 're not going to tell us what you think about the prospect of the next general election , the prospects of Thatcherism being , perhaps , nearly finished ? |
| 28 | But she 's not going to tell us , is she ? |
| 29 | ‘ They not going to tell us . |
| 30 | They 're not going to tell you anything … |