Example sentences of "[prep] be told " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but we ca n't do , we ca n't do anything apart from be told what to do by the teachers . |
| 2 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 3 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 4 | Steve Adorable rolled in about lunchtime and he too needed to be told everything . |
| 5 | Students used to be told that it was dangerous to steepen the climb below 100 feet . |
| 6 | For who inside the system needs to be told what is well understood ? |
| 7 | Is the tale to be told in the short space of thirty or forty minutes with a minimal cast ? 1f so , then care should be taken to dispense with any dancer or item not essential to the action , e.g. Ashton eliminated several characters in Turgenev 's A Month in the Country . |
| 8 | Or is it to be told by mimed dance and/or danced mime ? |
| 9 | Yet even mimed dance and danced mime need to be carefully structured if the story is to be told in all its aspects . |
| 10 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 11 | Svidrigailov 's answer , when Raskolnikov asks him Shy do n't you see a doctor ? ’ is that he does n't need to be told he 's ill . |
| 12 | Nor does it get us anywhere to learn from Anna Dostoevsky 's Memoirs that the story of the frantic Shatov , where phrasing seems inevitable and images unsought — it does n't help to be told by the novelist 's widow that these flawless pages lean heavily on his own behaviour while their first child was being born . |
| 13 | Hugh Kenner does n't need to be told how much I admire The Pound Era . |
| 14 | The most important figure in the latter group is Bunting himself , so little read these days that many readers will need to be told that the title of Davie 's history refers to his masterpiece Briggflatts ( 1966 ) . |
| 15 | It said : ‘ I 'm much criticised for part of a written order under my signature which includes a sentence that the Yugoslavian nationals were not to be told their destination . |
| 16 | Anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of military pomposity will relish the story of General Patton inspecting a hospital in France and screaming abuse at a man for not coming to attention in his presence , only to be told ‘ Run along , asshole . |
| 17 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 18 | Moran was not to be told . |
| 19 | Pity Jack had to be told , really . |
| 20 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 21 | And today very few British parents would be seriously alarmed to be told their children had measles . |
| 22 | A myth abounds that women just need to be told they are going to meet the Princess of Wales and they go into labour . |
| 23 | After his last visit , he had gone to her and begged to be told the truth . |
| 24 | He had to be told . ’ |
| 25 | Millions who applied for the minimum 100 shares in the great water sell-off are likely today to be told their applications are being met in full despite a huge oversubcription to the £5.24billion privatisation . |
| 26 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 27 | Children used to be told of one triumph after another . |
| 28 | Richard Nelson , Director of Market Research Services at Campbell Soups All consumers want is to be told what is happening to their food , how safe it is and what is its quality … |
| 29 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
| 30 | ‘ Sadly , a lot of people need to be told , rather than asked . |