Example sentences of "had [been] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 2 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 3 | Or so I had been told . |
| 4 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 5 | He said he had met the man , whose bona fides he had checked , in a Belfast hotel , and had been told his group held 64 separate documents relating to IRA suspects in the Irish Republic . |
| 6 | They had been told their union was no longer recognised . |
| 7 | Werner Kratschull , a pastor and dissident , said he had been told that East Berlin would crack down on the opposition ‘ in the Chinese manner ’ if there was trouble . |
| 8 | The nuns , from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery in Daventry , had been told that the food poisoning in nearby Bedworth had been caused by Salmonella enteriditis . |
| 9 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 10 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 11 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 12 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 13 | Malcolm , who had been told to look out for him by Steve , was impressed . |
| 14 | Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories . |
| 15 | I tell him that a friend who is even now in the Karakoram had been told that in Pakistan it was advisable to double the suggested dose of tablets and then to boil the water for twenty minutes . |
| 16 | One woman who wanted to wear a sari had been told by her husband ‘ who do you think you are — Mrs Gandhi ? |
| 17 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 18 | Drill , he had been told thirty years ago , is a curious aspect of training . |
| 19 | They had been told by Earl Spencer that there were sadly insufficient tickets for him to invite them , but Diana used her own allocation to ensure they were there . |
| 20 | At a meeting in the Kremlin last Saturday , General Vladimir Kryuchkov , head of the KGB and one of the newest members of the politburo , implicitly admitted the lies that had been told about the role of the secret police in Stalin 's repression . |
| 21 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 22 | After the statement was read , Mr Justice Davies — also the trial judge in the pamphlet action — said it would have been unfair to Count Tolstoy and Mr Watts if the jury in the action against them had been told that ‘ responsible publishers ’ had already paid money into court and agreed to apologise and withdraw a book containing similar charges as those made in the pamphlet . |
| 23 | Sources at Surrey Ambulance Service confirmed last night that staff , of which about 80 are non-emergency workers , had been told ‘ quite bluntly ’ of the consequences of the action . |
| 24 | McLeish gritted his teeth , and , trying not to consider the implications of what he had been told . |
| 25 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 26 | Hachette says that Montana was a passive minority investor about which it knew no more than it had been told by Montana 's Swiss lawyer : that it represented investors from several Gulf countries . |
| 27 | It was , however , reported by his personal staff that he did manage a smirk when he had been told the story of how his arch rival and competitor had been conned by his countrymen on a flag-flying visit to the auld counthrie . |
| 28 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 29 | Zinc , he had been told , did wonders for the older man . |
| 30 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |