Example sentences of "be told that [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been told that we have to type it all in . |
| 2 | and someone and we 've now been told that we have to pay for it , and I |
| 3 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I 've been told that I 've lost my place and I 'm very disappointed . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly anyone who has ever had a severe , immediate reaction to a food is likely to react in the same way if they are told that they have consumed some of the same food . |
| 6 | The question erm we are told that we have got to take into account the actions of er true to me that the er reference site , therefore , we must carry on as er . |
| 7 | We are told that we have to pay Swindon another fifty thousand if he plays . |
| 8 | They were relieved to be told that they had done well , and also that these tests were not that accurate after all . |
| 9 | You will be told that it has taken place every 13 July since 1375 , and perhaps it has . |
| 10 | So as soon as I could get away I went to your hotel , only to be told that you had left shortly after your colleagues . ’ |
| 11 | Aszal refused to leave her until , he says , at 1 a.m. they were told that she had to go to a detention centre where men were not allowed . |
| 12 | But he ca n't repress a shudder as he recalls the day he learned of his wife 's death , at first being told that she had drowned . |
| 13 | No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project . |
| 14 | Suddenly she remembered being told that he had lost an only daughter , killed by a hit-and-run driver , and she wished the words unsaid . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's great ’ said a delighted Derek Porter , from HFD , Culcheth , on being told that he had won the Gazette competition for January , a £50 perfume voucher courtesy of Hampson 's Perfumerie , Leigh . |
| 16 | The coroner was told that he had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager . |
| 17 | The court was told that he had killed the girl after taking part in sex play with her and then discovering that she was under age . |
| 18 | She waited all day for the Kurd to return , but he failed to do so ; and when she made enquiries the next morning she was told that he had left the town within minutes of conducting her to the priest 's house . |
| 19 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |