Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been told about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jesus had probably been told about Zacchaeus and so was able to call him by name . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund : |
| 8 | What I do n't need is a love affair with a woman who 's on the run from her past , her husband and God knows what else I have n't been told about yet . |
| 9 | Still others throw themselves on the mercy of God without being able to name the name of Christ because they have never been told about him . |