Example sentences of "not tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will ye not tell me what it was ye were fighting over ? ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 3 | ‘ Jinny , why not tell me what you 're after ? |
| 4 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 5 | He would not tell me , or could not explain . |
| 6 | Faith did not tell me about this , you know , she would have realised how angry I should be . |
| 7 | Do not tell me that they are old ideas . |
| 8 | They can not tell me . |
| 9 | ‘ It will all come out when you have caught the murderers , why not tell me now ? ’ |
| 10 | I know you will not tell me what you have decided , and I must cease scribbling on , anticipating , despite myself , your never-to-be anticipated answer , always in the past , a shock , a change , most frequently a delight . |
| 11 | Please do not tell me that the object of professional boxing is to accumulate points by touching parts of the opponent 's head . |
| 12 | I can imagine a lot of beautiful things that , among their functions , will not tell me the time . |
| 13 | What 's the book going to be about , or would you rather not tell me ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest . |
| 15 | You really can not tell me too much — I would rather sift through a huge amount of detail and give you a definite answer than have to suggest all the possible alternatives and leave you to figure out which applies in your case . |
| 16 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 17 | Initially she went right back to the age of four and , although she could not tell me what year it was , she did know that there was a queen called Victoria . |
| 18 | ‘ Face facts ’ does not tell me what to do about the facts to be faced . |
| 19 | Do not tell me that Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey , renowned in the ranks of chivalry , has been deprived of all dealings with the female kind ? |
| 20 | Something he will not tell me ? ’ |
| 21 | How could you not tell me ? ’ |
| 22 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 23 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |
| 24 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 25 | He did not tell me for what crime , and I did not raise the subject with Jean-Claude . |
| 26 | You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . |
| 27 | How could you not tell me ? ’ |
| 28 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
| 29 | I know Maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable , or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold . |
| 30 | She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning , and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays . |