Example sentences of "[vb past] not tell him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father died on Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |
| 2 | Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 5 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 8 | So they did not tell him where Jesus was , but made their way home without going back to Jerusalem . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Frightened for the Englishman , because she well knew that her brother had an uncontrollable temper , she did not tell him anything . |
| 13 | Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 17 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When she knew she was pregnant she did not tell him , she kept it secret . |
| 20 | I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that . |
| 21 | That did n't tell him much . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't tell him . |
| 23 | 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 ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't tell him , ’ said John . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He did n't ask who it was and I did n't tell him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I did n't tell him . |
| 29 | I refused because I was afraid for the baby , though I did n't tell him that . |
| 30 | 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 . |