Example sentences of "not [vb infin] tell him " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 2 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 3 | And Paul himself and Maggie and Fenna , but she would not try to tell him that . |
| 4 | ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to tell him , ’ John says . |
| 6 | I do n't want to tell him over the phone , but at the same time I ca n't pretend everything 's all right . ’ |
| 7 | I could n't wait to tell him on Monday . |
| 8 | I do n't need to tell him this because I am clutching them upright in my hand . |
| 9 | After a time I said , ‘ You do n't think that if he had an outside person looking after him , who he did n't mind telling him what to do because it was their job … ‘ |
| 10 | This was patently untrue , but Sam did n't like to tell him . |
| 11 | But if you do n't have to contact the inland revenue , because you do n't need to prove the will because the estate is too small then you do n't have to tell him about the jointly owned property . |
| 12 | Put to it , Luch could have spoken , but she could n't have told him why . |
| 13 | I knew she should n't have told him . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , you do n't know yourself what they 'll bring in , do you , Rose , so you could n't have told him anything ? ’ said her husband after a pause , when his pathetic , bewildered-puppy air had intensified . |
| 15 | ‘ He thought the world of the shop , I could n't have told him to retire because it meant everything to him . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't forget to tell him she 's stable . ’ |
| 17 | But I did n't bother to tell him just how wrong he was . |
| 18 | ‘ You are Miss Claudia Adams , owner of a dress shop and also a model , ’ he stated , his voice heavy with sarcasm , and Claudia , annoyed that he should call her beautiful showroom a dress shop , did n't bother to tell him she was n't a model . |
| 19 | Of course , yo you do n't go tell him , it do n't come on there does it . |
| 20 | I just ca n't bear to tell him . |