Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 2 | Let us imagine , as the first dawning of objective thought , a child wanting another helping at dinner , remembering what it is like to be sick , and telling himself what he has often been told by his mother , ‘ Do n't , or you 'll be ill ’ . |
| 3 | No , she has n't been told by the hospital . |
| 4 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 5 | Yet the story of the development of the city 's housing schemes has never been told in full , and particularly not from the point of view of the original tenants . |
| 6 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 7 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 8 | But he may have also been told by Mr Major that it is unlikely he would be promoted much further , and has decided to seek his fortune elsewhere . |
| 9 | Yet when , after Poindexter 's first day of testimony , the story-line reached its conclusion — no , the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras — viewers fell away . |
| 10 | Mr Maclean was answering an emergency question from the area 's MP , John Cunningham ( Lab , Copeland ) , who had visited Sellafield on Thursday and Friday but complained he had not been told of the leak . |
| 11 | Most local hoteliers and guesthouse owners , who said they had not been told of this , left before the vote was taken . |
| 12 | The district controller of the Portland Coastguard , Donald McDonald , said he had not been told of the trip by the canoeing group but that the sea conditions were ‘ quite favourable ’ and should not have caused any problems . |
| 13 | President F.W. de Klerk 's chief negotiator at the talks on South Africa 's new constitution had not been told about the pre-dawn raids . |
| 14 | With her customary curtness , Camilla insisted she had not been told in advance about the announcement . |
| 15 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | One more thing , if I may , we 've just been told of the government 's first response to the consultation arrangements , sorry , wrong wrong item , it 's all right . |
| 18 | She had once been told by a graduate in oriental studies — Studmeyer ? |
| 19 | We 've also been told by our publishers that Back To The Future 4 is gon na feature ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Jesus had probably been told about Zacchaeus and so was able to call him by name . |
| 21 | The simple way there as you 've probably been told by your tax officer here is just to reclaim it at the end of the tax year . |
| 22 | Eventually a senior official arrived for talks with the police , somewhat annoyed that he had n't been told of the attempt to list the building . |
| 23 | Up until then , neither boy had even been told of their parents ' divorce . |
| 24 | Wilson , of Low Moor , Darlington , told the court he had previously been told by police that the knife was not an offensive weapon . |
| 25 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 26 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 27 | Ghislain Pascal of Survival International says the Amerindians who live in the area have not been told about the logging plans and deplores the fact that " Samling — which has devastated the lands of the Dayak peoples in Sarawak — should ever be able to negotiate a deal without social and environmental impact assessment being carried out . " |
| 28 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 29 | The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund : |
| 30 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |