Example sentences of "[be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shower just do what they 're told . ’ |
| 2 | Sadly , so many dogs seem to end up in classes run by loud , aggressive people , where they are yanked cruelly on choke chains and punished physically if they do n't do as they 're told . |
| 3 | His use of Arabic , we 're told , is as different from the traditional forms as Dickens is from Chaucer . |
| 4 | ‘ You must n't believe everything you 're told , ’ Mrs Mills had said . |
| 5 | ‘ Soldiers have to do what they 're told . ’ |
| 6 | The opening night drew a mix of media and hip hop people in an unusual venue which , we 're told , is not unlike ‘ somebody 's living room ’ . |
| 7 | The house scene is dead , we 're told by the older club cognoscenti ; in fact ‘ before you could say Happy Flowered Roses , it was all over ’ ( NME ) . |
| 8 | Yet now we 're told indie bands should n't be allowed to make dance records ( because they do n't understand it ) , that at the start these bands wee quite rightly isolated by house ( ’ Here was the nation 's party in full swing and they could n't get in ’ ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Do as you 're told . |
| 10 | In the Old Testament , after the Great Flood , we 're told that God sent his rainbow as a sign of his agreement or covenant , that he would never again attempt to destroy the peoples of the world . |
| 11 | We 're told to get a tray to put our gear into . |
| 12 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 13 | I do have one or two owners who do what they 're told . |
| 14 | You need your owner 's support and wisdom so try to keep to heel and do as you 're told . |
| 15 | We 're told that it is not a commercial fish to breed in large numbers and that it is species more suited for the specialist or advanced hobbyist . |
| 16 | Already being used by the law in the US , the head-to-toe outfit gives that Michelin man effect but is , we 're told , light and flexible at the same time as being resistant to punches , bottles and the occasional kicking . |
| 17 | You have to do what you 're told ! ’ snapped Angalo . |
| 18 | It is daft and unpleasant , rationalises Richard , but logical : ‘ You 're told where to go and what to say — or at least how to say it — and the only thing you can control is the shape of your sandwich or whether your coffee 's cold , so that 's where you exercise the control . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But they 're doing their best , ’ we 're told . |
| 20 | Now do as you 're told ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Just do as you 're told ! |
| 22 | ‘ Just do as you 're told and stop arguing , ’ the father snapped . |
| 23 | THE Queen Mum , Princess Margaret and Princess Anne all have birthdays in August and , we 're told , when they blow out the candles they sing : ‘ Happy Birthday to One . ’ |
| 24 | Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions |
| 25 | It stars Nolte , although we 're told he wo n't actually sing but he plays the dad of someone who does . |
| 26 | Do what you 're told ! |
| 27 | Do as you 're told for once , without opening your mouth . ’ |
| 28 | Probably not a lot these days , but at the start , we 're told , it stood for Two Guys and a VAX — has anyone signed for the movie rights yet ? |
| 29 | SunDragon , the Sun Microsystems Inc multi-processor due out on November 10 , will be initially limited to maximum configurations of eight CPUs , we 're told , even though it is bound to talk about a ceiling of twenty-processors which is further down the road . |
| 30 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |