Example sentences of "i [was/were] tell that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When I was told that I 'd have to share a kitchen and bathroom with strangers I could n't help thinking how this would astound the people at home , how they would snort with laughter at the idea that this could really happen in England , mother of civilization . |
| 2 | I was told that both the new right and those who support the Government 's view — that the present blasphemy laws which protect only Christianity should be retained — had been excluded . |
| 3 | I was told that if I swore my performance would be stopped . ’ |
| 4 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 5 | I was told that there was n't going to be any nonsense like last time . |
| 6 | He said yesterday : ‘ I was told that the buying-out of political prisoners by West Germany and the spy swaps were immoral and against the law . ’ |
| 7 | He said yesterday : ‘ I was told that the buying-out of political prisoners by West Germany and the spy swaps were immoral and against the law . ’ |
| 8 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 9 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 10 | When I queried this , I was told that subscribers did not wish BT to divulge this information . |
| 11 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 12 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 13 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 14 | The wood opposite was smoking with dusk again and I was looking forward to seeing the orderly , when my door was opened and I was told that I would be moved across to the main camp at once . |
| 15 | Mayor Houde made his business headquarters at the Mount Royal , and when I enquired the reason for a long queue of nondescript citizens waiting before a desk on the mezzanine floor , I was told that it was ‘ pay-off ’ day for contributors to the mayor 's ‘ charity fund ’ for their ‘ protection ’ . |
| 16 | I was told that there were winter sledge tracks from the town to the Sea of Okhotsk , to Vilyuisk , the Kolyma river and to Irkutsk , some 1,200 miles away . |
| 17 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 18 | ‘ I was told that you had a motorbike and sidecar . |
| 19 | I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial . |
| 20 | When 1 commented to the hosts of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee ( under whose auspices 1 went ) on the use of steel for guarding the rings , I was told that the full , true installation ( ’ green field ’ ) cost would have been near to £50 million . |
| 21 | As it was close by I decided to pay Frank Dick a visit at the Board 's offices , so I ran to Francis House , but I was told that he was n't there . |
| 22 | I was told that the ring was valued at approximately £100 . |
| 23 | I was told that before she got married and gone into farming she lived with a great-aunt and enjoyed a good meal every day . |
| 24 | He could get up to all sorts of tricks and I was told that when another one of the lads at the same farm applied for a job as a coachman , Grandad gave him a reference . |
| 25 | I was told that Sir Noël Coward also stayed in the same suite quite regularly . |
| 26 | ‘ I was told that Mr Morley was here and I just needed a brief word . ’ |
| 27 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 28 | I was told that I was being sent as C.O. 800X Squadron which was then forming with Fulmars at Donibristle . |
| 29 | I was told that the outcome of the election would have no effect on either the funding or the speed with which a bed could be found , and that even if a Labour government dismantled the existing system there would be no adverse consequences for my sister . |
| 30 | Puzzled , I was told that Acorns were that amount ‘ because of the energy that goes into them' , and ‘ anyway we really need cash at the moment' . ’ |