Example sentences of "you have been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 2 | Unpleasant symptoms are a lot easier to cope with if you know you have Whatsisname 's Syndrome than if you 've been told that it 's ‘ all in your mind ’ . |
| 3 | Remember what you 've been told |
| 4 | It 's for the people who are n't happy with the weight they 're at , or if it 's unhealthy — if it 's endangering your health and you have to do something about it ; if you 've been told by your doctor to lose weight . |
| 5 | Dave : I 'd always tended to shy away from them , like , because like I say I think it 's the fear of the unknown , what you 've been told . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been told one in 10 couples is infertile but they ca n't be in your street , can they ? |
| 7 | It does n't matter , I mean , where or whom you 've been told by , as long as you 've been told you can take precautions later in life from sexual diseases and and getting yourself pregnant . |
| 8 | It does n't matter , I mean , where or whom you 've been told by , as long as you 've been told you can take precautions later in life from sexual diseases and and getting yourself pregnant . |
| 9 | Of the four songs on offer , ‘ Cold Inferno ’ just about has the edge with Rob 's intimidating vocal snarling the ‘ Question all that you 've been told ’ refrain . |
| 10 | Of the four songs on offer , ‘ Cold Inferno ’ just about has the edge with Rob 's intimidating vocal snarling the ‘ Question all that you 've been told ’ refrain . |
| 11 | and this man came up to me father and he says , that is not the right grave , you 've been told . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that what you 've been told to tell me , or is it the truth ? ’ |
| 13 | you 've been told you 've been training people ai n't you ? |
| 14 | I know you 've been told different people different things . |
| 15 | Well you 've been told you can have your desk and your chair , but you 're not gon na have your lamp and erm some other bits . |
| 16 | And you know they do n't pay the poll tax and you you 've been told almost you can do it on casual . |
| 17 | ‘ You had been told . |
| 18 | ‘ You had been told ? ’ |
| 19 | So you had found that you had been told to find . |
| 20 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |
| 21 | Do not buy any materials until you have been told you can have a grant by the council , and once you have , keep any receipts . |
| 22 | In an extreme example , imagine you have been told you have an incurable disease . |
| 23 | However much you have been told , you may still come across problems when you first join a Home . |
| 24 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 25 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 26 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |
| 27 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not know what you have been told . |
| 29 | You have been told , I suppose , that you are most beautiful in your tears . |
| 30 | As you have been told , he kept a herd of cows , and also a bull . |