Example sentences of "were [adv] told [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |
| 2 | In the course of an item on The Late Show , viewers were confidently told that Sean 's Show is ‘ the first postmodernist sitcom ’ , that it goes out on Thursdays , and that it 's a Channel 4 programme . |
| 3 | They were also told that at 10 o'clock next morning she would be put on a plane back to India . |
| 4 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 5 | ‘ You were probably told that she died of a heart attack — but she did n't . |
| 6 | Finally an announcement was made that there was trouble with the rear power car ; we were later told that the train would be terminated at Wolverhampton and a bus laid on to take us to Shrewsbury . |
| 7 | Patients were simply told that we were aware that emotions could influence how they reacted to illness and were asked to participate in a survey investigating their response to hospital admission for minor surgery . |
| 8 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 9 | They were then told that Fisher had already pleaded guilty to raping an Oxford University student in June on last year and that he had a string of other convictions , including 2 of indecent exposure . |
| 10 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |