Example sentences of "[coord] [be] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | The communicator who has not interacted with the material and is merely passing on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source . |
| 2 | Jarvis thought he had read somewhere , or been told , that woodworm was most active in May , yet now in September those small heaps of ginger-coloured dust that lay everywhere looked fresh , and as he opened the door of Three a trickle of the same dust came down on his head . |
| 3 | He 'd tell presidents about their appointees , promise appointees and Senators he 'd suppressed their files , let certain papers know — on plain paper , in plain envelopes — what he 'd overheard or snatch-shot or been told . |
| 4 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 5 | Even when children encounter facts in books or are told the ‘ correct ’ explanation , it does not mean that they will necessarily believe them . |
| 6 | Secondly , a teacher may witness , or be told about , an act of child abuse by a colleague at school . |
| 7 | The airport authorities nearby had heard nothing , or were telling nothing . |
| 8 | When , after a period of confusion , subjects began to realize , or were told , that there were anomalous cards among the pack ; they then had no trouble correctly identifying all the cards shown to them , anomalous or otherwise . |
| 9 | These experiments generally show that there is discrimination against black people in the sense that the black actor is not given the job , or is told that it is filled , while the similarly qualified white actor is given the job . |
| 10 | Whether a price indication is misleading depends , not upon what the trailer intended to convey , but upon what a consumer might reasonably understand from what he reads or is told . |
| 11 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 12 | Royal protection chief Commander Bob Marsh also dismissed the paper 's other claims that the Yard had received information from spy chiefs and been told by the Palace to reveal Di 's movements . |
| 13 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 14 | They had approached a GLC body , the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) , for money and been told that if it was to put money in , an established business person had to be involved . |
| 15 | Mothers are a great deal more help once they 've calmed down and been told what to do . |
| 16 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 17 | had been asked for his advice , had recommended someone , and been told to approach him . |
| 18 | They had enquired if he was at the pottery and been told that he was not . |
| 19 | It emerged that Harbury had rung Tavett 's home and been told by his wife that he was unwell and had gone to the doctor 's surgery . |
| 20 | Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . |
| 21 | Ronni took a taxi to the college where Arnie was doing his summer school — she 'd phoned his flat from the station and been told that was where he 'd be . |
| 22 | But , since she had no wish to have a discussion with him about it when for all she knew he could have telephoned her hotel yesterday or the day before and been told simply that she was n't available , she chose to assume that he did not know . |
| 23 | He says that there have been occasions when he 's had a gun held to his head and been told to operate on someone 's brother first , or he 'd be shot . |
| 24 | If they ask for an explanation and are told that it is shooting at a wooden bird in the graveyard with bows and arrows , they may think they are being hoaxed . |
| 25 | Of course , in our actual observation and collection of data we move from particular individuals and instances to the general , abstracting from the particular what we see to be shared and are told is socially expected and approved . |
| 26 | They are in danger of freezing to death in winter , and are told to get knitting . |
| 27 | I think it 's absolutely essential that West and North , and those bits of North that join West and are equally deprived , like Ardoyne , Oldpark , Duncairn , should be classified as an area of special economic assistance , special IDB support , special funding to ensure that whatever jobs are about when industrialists do appear here from the Koreas , the Japans , the West Germanys and wherever else , that they are taken in here and are told that they would get 10 , 15 , 20% extra for coming in here . |
| 28 | Passengers have a gun at their head and are told they must pay a certain amount . |
| 29 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 30 | For example , a client would ask for an aperient from the nurse who noted lack of bowel action and be told to ask the nurse who did the drugs . |