Example sentences of "have just been told " 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 | Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men . |
| 3 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 4 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 5 | As they went inside , Jack Smith was roaring with laughter , having just been told an extremely rude story by one of the regulars . |
| 6 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 7 | She could hardly say , ‘ I 've just been told that I 'm pregnant again , ’ because it was only a matter of a week or two . |
| 8 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I said , ‘ I 've just been told that Punch is closing . ’ |
| 9 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 10 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |
| 11 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 12 | Rain said : ‘ Despite Barbara Coleman 's chattering and despite what I 've just been told , you 're all safe because there 's no proof about the provenance of the paintings . ’ |
| 13 | Rossythe is no different we stand to lose eighteen thousand plus training facilities for the whole of Scotland but we 've just been told of recent that a new nuclear waste dump is to be built at Rossythe could you tell us if this is a forerunner for the subject of closing Rossythe down with a loss of all these jobs ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 15 | I I 've just been told I 've just been told that our entire switchboard is totally lit up . |
| 16 | I I 've just been told I 've just been told that our entire switchboard is totally lit up . |
| 17 | One more thing , if I may , we 've just been told of the government 's first response to the consultation arrangements , sorry , wrong wrong item , it 's all right . |
| 18 | Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project . |
| 19 | I 've just been told to move you , which is what I 'm doing . |
| 20 | I 've just been told that I will receive a grant from the Education and Library Board , which will be used to support my children and pay part of the course costs , ’ explained Nikki . |
| 21 | We 've , we 've just been told to write it about either kidnapping or erm about the thing that I told you |
| 22 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 23 | I 've just been told er to my right it 's a very large sheep . |
| 24 | Yes I 've just been told that . |
| 25 | His superior was baffled , unsure of the validity and import of what he had just been told . |
| 26 | Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it . |
| 27 | She was particularly glad to see him as she had just been told she was pregnant . |
| 28 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 29 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 30 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |