Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [adv] [been] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 2 | Rossythe is no different we stand to lose eighteen thousand plus training facilities for the whole of Scotland but we 've just been told of recent that a new nuclear waste dump is to be built at Rossythe could you tell us if this is a forerunner for the subject of closing Rossythe down with a loss of all these jobs ? |
| 3 | But we 've also been told this year , that there will be year four , beyond this slide , where the same thing could happen again . |
| 4 | ‘ We had expected her to come as well but we have now been told it is highly unlikely . ’ |
| 5 | Scott could n't see the name painted along one side of it but he 'd already been told it was called The Abbott . |
| 6 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 7 | ‘ It wo n't be announced for a week or so , but he 's already been told . |