Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already been told the prize money will be forwarded to his association . |
| 2 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 3 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 4 | The couple discovered that residents just outside the canvassed area had written to Shepherd & Wedderburn , complaining , though Mr Clark says he has never been told their identities . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Scott could n't see the name painted along one side of it but he 'd already been told it was called The Abbott . |
| 7 | He recalls vividly being told shortly after he took the job at Fawley refinery that an Esso director would be calling to see him . |
| 8 | ‘ It was strange how Gary would often know things he had not been told . |
| 9 | He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him . |
| 10 | She spoke softly , lisping slightly , and Lewis immediately noticed ( what he had not been told ) that two teeth in the upper left of her jaw had been broken off . |
| 11 | He said he had not been told it would be an offence and had not received any advice or information on the disease . |
| 12 | He said he had not been told it would be an offence and had not received any advice or information on the disease . |
| 13 | Mr Maclean was answering an emergency question from the area 's MP , John Cunningham ( Lab , Copeland ) , who had visited Sellafield on Thursday and Friday but complained he had not been told of the leak . |
| 14 | The district controller of the Portland Coastguard , Donald McDonald , said he had not been told of the trip by the canoeing group but that the sea conditions were ‘ quite favourable ’ and should not have caused any problems . |
| 15 | His superior was baffled , unsure of the validity and import of what he had just been told . |
| 16 | The Purchaser wants to know that when he takes control of the Business at Completion , it accords with what he had previously been told . |
| 17 | Wilson , of Low Moor , Darlington , told the court he had previously been told by police that the knife was not an offensive weapon . |
| 18 | Wickham said this tallied with what he had already been told , but it was undisputed that the old Adler currently on Tavett 's desk was usually there . |
| 19 | It was n't anything that he had n't been told before , particularly by Dr Goode , and yet , it seemed that Ron , at this particular point , was psychologically prepared to hear the information in a way that he had not been before . |
| 20 | Yet he had n't been told this highly relevant fact . |
| 21 | Eventually a senior official arrived for talks with the police , somewhat annoyed that he had n't been told of the attempt to list the building . |
| 22 | He was sitting , moreover , where he had often been told not to sit . |
| 23 | Dierdriu was still seated on the High Throne , watching him , and Fergus knew a quick anticipation , and thought : is she about to tell me the truth about my birth ? and was both intrigued and apprehensive , for he had never been told anything of his true parents . |
| 24 | He had never been told what to do by a designer before . |
| 25 | ‘ Thirty-five , he is , and he 's just been told he 's not got long to live . |
| 26 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 27 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 28 | ‘ It wo n't be announced for a week or so , but he 's already been told . |
| 29 | He 's already been told to make other arrangements — and that 's a shame . |