Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 2 | ‘ So I just been told . |
| 3 | Why can we not be told ? |
| 4 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 5 | But could we please be told just a little bit more about Compus course , er run by Horizon , that 's mentioned in the last paragraph , erm on the , on green one , it 's on the first page . |
| 6 | Benjamin stammered out an apologetic request — how he would appreciate it if no one else was told about our visit . |
| 7 | Everybody else was told to move to the neighbouring countries of Jordan , Syria , Egypt and Lebanon . |
| 8 | Has it not been told to you " from beginning " ? |
| 9 | Why , has he already been told ? |
| 10 | He probably was told to go home and take it easy , you know , and |