Example sentences of "[not/n't] tell [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar . |
| 3 | If you should stroll into a pub and meet an analyst and a user talking about work , and you can not tell one from the other , they have probably developed a successful system together . |
| 4 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One lesson seems to be that we can not tell anything about the consequences of taxation . |
| 8 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin . |
| 11 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Do n't tell me about the girl who lost her childhood . ’ |
| 20 | He did n't tell me about the death-threat . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Well she wo n't tell me about the other one . |
| 23 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |
| 24 | ‘ You did n't tell her about the collar ? ’ |
| 25 | Isobel , bending her head , thought : I ca n't tell him about the baby ; not now . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She did n't tell him about the snake . |
| 28 | I did n't tell him about the handbill I had found ; indeed , I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence . |
| 29 | Did n't tell him about the er row of eights on there . |
| 30 | I ca n't tell him of the analogies I am cheerfully fabricating . |