Sentence examples for said not to tell from inspiring English sources

"What are you talking about?" "Isaac said not to tell anyone this".

"It's very hard for me," he said, "not to tell everybody everything".

"We're encouraging having proxy parties," Ms. Tifft said, "not to tell them how to vote but to explain what the process is and what the proposal means".

Dewey Dell: Lafe took me in the cotton field and he said his sack was full and he was going to empty it into my sack and so it was because I could not help it I knew Darl knew and he said not to tell pa as it would kill him what with ma dyen.

It will help her gain trust in you if you can get her to tell you what's wrong and not tell anyone if she says not to tell anyone.

The flustered fellow hesitated and then said, "Not if my mother told me to, no".

When his mother mentioned this to the family doctor, the doctor said, "Tell him not to talk too much".

He said, ''Promise not to tell your mother — it will break her heart.'' I promised.

She said they were told not to cry, or to make a sound, or they would be killed, too.

"Fuck 'em, I ain't going," Bush is said to have told his advisers.

"Show don't tell, as you writers say," she says to him, telling not showing.