Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] tell [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte was drinking sherry , do n't suppose , should n't tell you that but she only had one little drop and I was |
| 2 | The chap there said , ‘ I really should n't tell you this , but there has been a political dispute over the spelling of ecu . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't tell you this , but — but one of the walled gardens is locked up . |
| 4 | Should n't tell you this , but when you 're retired there 's nothing much they can do to you , is there ? |
| 5 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
| 6 | ‘ I was contacted — by the consul in Monte — oh , I should n't tell you these things , but … ’ |
| 7 | A source might not tell us all we would like to know ; a document may sometimes be biased — but these sources are still the only direct evidence we have , and the historian has to learn to use them effectively . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 11 | She did , of course , but she could n't tell him that . |
| 12 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 13 | I I could n't tell you that . |
| 14 | Er my favourite thing er well I could n't tell you that . |
| 15 | " Not near a river — I need n't tell you that . |
| 16 | It was clear that Mrs Fairfax would not tell me any more . |
| 17 | ‘ I shall not tell her that , ’ she said . |
| 18 | If Mrs Maybury would n't tell them any more , what could she do ? |
| 19 | ‘ I was hoping you would n't tell me that . ’ |
| 20 | I just do n't believe it , I 'm afraid , but he would n't tell me any more . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So you ca n't tell me much ? ’ |
| 22 | You ca n't tell me that was accidental . |
| 23 | You ca n't tell me any different . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't tell him that ! ’ |
| 25 | You ca n't tell him any different , er like Dan at work he does videos of profession like you know . |
| 26 | ‘ Come on now , you know I ca n't tell you that . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that , Karim . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that , sir . |