Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 | She 's probably been told to . |