Example sentences of "not [verb] 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 It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt .
3 ‘ Here — you 're not going to tell him , are you ?
4 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 .
5 And Paul himself and Maggie and Fenna , but she would not try to tell him that .
6 Her hope of happiness was gone , all gone , and if she had to bear a little of the blame for not having told him immediately who she was , then surely that was not a thing to hang her with .
7 Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed .
8 He said that I must be mad not to have told him .
9 ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either .
10 ‘ I do n't want to tell him , ’ John says .
11 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 . ’
12 I could n't wait to tell him on Monday .
13 I do n't need to tell him this because I am clutching them upright in my hand .
14 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 … ‘
15 This was patently untrue , but Sam did n't like to tell him .
16 She was n't going to tell him .
17 I gathered you were n't going to tell him , so I kept quiet too . ’
18 As Wayne returned , she quickly took her hand away ; she was n't going to tell him about this , not if she could help it .
19 I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things .
20 Much as Mandy 's well-intentioned little white lies annoyed her , Charity felt intensely loyal to her irrepressible cousin , and she was n't going to tell him that Mandy had an unfortunate trait of bending the truth into what ever pigeon holes suited her .
21 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 .
22 Put to it , Luch could have spoken , but she could n't have told him why .
23 I knew she should n't have told him .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 ‘ He thought the world of the shop , I could n't have told him to retire because it meant everything to him .
26 ‘ Do n't forget to tell him she 's stable . ’
27 But I did n't bother to tell him just how wrong he was .
28 ‘ 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 .
29 Of course , yo you do n't go tell him , it do n't come on there does it .
30 She had n't meant to tell him that .
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