Example sentences of "was told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Reilly , 47 , took three plastic sacks from the driveway of Sunday Times managing editor Roger Eglin 's home in Teddington , west London , nearby Isleworth Crown Court was told during a two-day trial . |
| 2 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 3 | We was told at school not to do that . |
| 4 | Frank Sinatra was told at the weekend that the four pasta sauces named after him are being withdrawn . |
| 5 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 6 | ‘ Buckmaster — after due consultation with the PM I was told at Downing Street to issue a discreet alert . ’ |
| 7 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 8 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 9 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 10 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 11 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 12 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |
| 13 | The story of Mr Lock 's mind-bending trip was told at Bristol Family and Youth Court yesterday , when the 16-year-old girl , who can not be named , denied unlawfully administering a poison alleged to be LSD with intent to injure , aggrieve or annoy on May 13 . |
| 14 | Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent . |
| 15 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 16 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 17 | As an illustration of how it can occur , the field-worker was told of an incident in which a driver was asked to stop for failing to wear a seat-belt , upon which he sped off , necessitating a car chase , which eventually ended with two cars being wrecked and a policeman injured . |
| 18 | The court was told of two warehouse parties — the first in Commercial Street , east London and the second in Cuba Street , Isle of Dogs , both in September last year . |
| 19 | Mr Endara was told of the planned attack , and asked for his support , which he apparently granted , saying that he was ready to become the new leader if the US could topple the Noriega regime . |
| 20 | She wanted to know what he did with his evenings and was told of occasional visits to the West End now everything in the world of entertainment had opened up once more , but the mess or the local pubs were the usual haunts of his brother officers and himself . |
| 21 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 22 | At 11 a.m. the following day his mother was told of his detention . |
| 23 | This Frederick ( he adopted the English spelling ) was the mysterious grandfather that John Cranko was told of , who was supposed to spend much of his time visiting the fleshpots of Cape Town . |
| 24 | His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults . |
| 25 | Scott was told of the effect of Ruskin 's intervention over Freeman 's letter in The Times by George Dasent , the assistant editor , which coupled with the tone of the letter to Dallas ensured that by late 1859 there was a complete breach between Scott and Ruskin . |
| 26 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 27 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |
| 28 | When Stephen 's mother was told of their intended trip , she immediately offered to move back to the Manor , to oversee the children . |
| 29 | She was told of the importance of completing the course , even though her cellulitis appeared to be improving . |
| 30 | Andrew Tomas , researcher and author , during his stay in India was told of an ancient document preserved in an Indian Prince 's library at Ujjain and listed as Agastya Samhita , which gives directions for making electrical batteries . |