Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 2 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 3 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 4 | ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth . |
| 5 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 6 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 7 | Better not tell her the truth . |
| 8 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 9 | And then she added , ‘ But why not tell you the truth ? |
| 10 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 11 | ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’ |
| 12 | Few witnesses in court refuse ‘ to tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth ’ on the grounds that they do n't know what the truth is or how to tell it . |
| 13 | ‘ You have n't told me the truth . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 15 | What did you tell the police , Mr Calder , if you did n't tell them the truth ? ’ |
| 16 | She wo n't tell us the truth , but I know it , she wets herself , she does n't want it to show on the chairs in school |
| 17 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't tell you the truth , Ruth . |
| 19 | Yeah that was alright I w I did n't tell you the truth when we said that , sorry ! |