Example sentences of "[prep] be tell [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sgt Newman 's father , Eric , 58 , suffered a mild angina attack after being told of the shooting , and was being cared for by a neighbour last night . |
| 2 | Her oil worker husband , Les , flew home after being told of the tragedy … on his 40th birthday . |
| 3 | Boyd 's team visited the ten pits after being told by the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to establish whether British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 4 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 5 | When the messenger arrived in his camp bringing news of his call to the throne , all Imrik said was ‘ Why ? ’ , and upon being told of the murders , he commented ‘ Bad , very bad ’ , which was considered quite long-winded for him . |
| 6 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 7 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 8 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 9 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 10 | At the start of the following week , James Callaghan , then a young Parliamentary Secretary , was among a group of Ministers outside the Cabinet who were summoned to be told of the Cabinet 's decision . |
| 11 | Monckton , when brought into the meeting of ministers ( it was not a full Cabinet ) to be told of the adverse decision , said that it might delay matters by weeks . |
| 12 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 13 | Staff were called to a special meeting last night to be told of the proposed changes . |
| 14 | But perhaps for the particular plot you have arrived at , the particular murder you have in mind , a good deal will have to be told to the reader about pre-murder events . |
| 15 | Cheryl Wragg , 34 , was airlifted 150 miles for the operation , just weeks after 10-year-old Adele 's appeal , only to be told at the last minute the lungs were unsuitable . |
| 16 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 17 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 18 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 19 | Is the tale to be told in the short space of thirty or forty minutes with a minimal cast ? 1f so , then care should be taken to dispense with any dancer or item not essential to the action , e.g. Ashton eliminated several characters in Turgenev 's A Month in the Country . |
| 20 | In other words , he would first have to be told in the language of paragraph 10.4 , ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so … |
| 21 | Nor does it get us anywhere to learn from Anna Dostoevsky 's Memoirs that the story of the frantic Shatov , where phrasing seems inevitable and images unsought — it does n't help to be told by the novelist 's widow that these flawless pages lean heavily on his own behaviour while their first child was being born . |
| 22 | The poor industrialist had said that the minimum wage would put him out of business , only to be told by the noble academic that it would not need to if he ran his company properly . |
| 23 | In an effort to put the situation right , James approached Eric Williams , only to be told by the good doctor that , ‘ there was nothing to discuss ’ . |
| 24 | It was breathtaking to be told by the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) that we should have approached the Opposition to see whether we could negotiate a deal . |
| 25 | They surely do not need to be told by the chairmen of the respective parliamentary committees what they should and should not do . |
| 26 | Blake was not surprised to be told by the Doctor that its origin and purpose remained unknown . |
| 27 | The 343 workers whose sackings led to Britain 's most bitter industrial dispute since the late 1980s are to meet tomorrow to be told by the unions the details of the rundown package on offer . |
| 28 | Social workers are to be told by the DoH to get tough with troublesome young people in children 's homes . |
| 29 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 30 | Both Soul and Brief History include Stephen Hawking 's anecdote about being told by the Pope that scientists might properly study the universe after the Big Bang , but that the bang , or Creation , itself , was the province of God . |