Example sentences of "not tell [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it . |
2 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
3 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
4 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
5 | I had not told her about my summons to the Palace , but when I appeared in a tail coat , this unusual costume , combined with the insistence on punctuality , led her to make an accurate deduction . |
6 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
7 | Agnes duly went into labour about lunch-time one hot still day , pouring sweat and Omming to herself while my father boiled lots of water and things and Mrs Clamp dabbed Agnes 's brow and like as not told her of all the women she 'd known who had died in childbirth . |
8 | As she closed her eyes , she wondered why she had not told them about Ben right from the beginning . |
9 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
10 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
11 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
12 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
13 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
14 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
15 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
16 | ‘ Have I not told you of Callanish ? ’ |
17 | This idea that protect children , not tell them about what 's happening , I mean if anybody can protect them to that extent when even Neighbours is put at a different time on the television , you know , erm that somehow we make them warm and secure by not telling them , to me that is making them dependent and unable maybe to cope later on in their lives . |
18 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
19 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | When Martin Bean returned with Alice — an Alice who was tear-stained but still young enough for tears to be part of the simple process of healing — Emmie and Oliver did not tell him about Mr Hellyer . |
22 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
23 | Her last nurses did not tell her about her daughter 's terrible fate . |
24 | ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar . |
25 | He did not tell me for what crime , and I did not raise the subject with Jean-Claude . |
26 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
27 | He did not tell me of his coming to Bourani as a man tells something that chances to occur to him ; but far more as a dramatist tells an anecdote where the play requires . |
28 | Faith did not tell me about this , you know , she would have realised how angry I should be . |
29 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
30 | If your speech suffers from this defect , your teachers will not tell you of it . |