Example sentences of "not tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
2 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
3 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
4 | ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar . |
5 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
6 | More than that we can not tell you at the moment , but we will , of course , give you a full ( p ) review as soon as it is possible . |
7 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
8 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
9 | But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin . |
10 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
11 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
12 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
13 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
14 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
15 | The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig . |
16 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
17 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
18 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
19 | Mr Yossi Sarid , of the leftwing opposition Citizens Rights Movement , quoted from the lyrics : ‘ Do n't tell me about the girl who lost her eye . |
20 | Do n't tell me about the girl who lost her childhood . ’ |
21 | He did n't tell me about the death-threat . |
22 | ‘ You did n't tell me about the music festival starting next week in Pollensa — every Sunday for a month in the cloisters of Santo Domingo . ’ |
23 | Well she wo n't tell me about the other one . |
24 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |
25 | ‘ You did n't tell her about the collar ? ’ |
26 | Isobel , bending her head , thought : I ca n't tell him about the baby ; not now . |
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 | She did n't tell him about the snake . |
29 | I did n't tell him about the handbill I had found ; indeed , I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence . |
30 | Did n't tell him about the er row of eights on there . |