Example sentences of "[adv] been tell that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , the friend of the new French Prime Minister , Georges Bidault , had apparently been told that he could not concede the fundamental issue of independence ; for the other , who was to succeed Ho on his death , and for the large and varied delegation which came to Paris under the title of the Popular National Front ( Lien Viet ) everything , practically , turned on the question of Cochinchina . |
| 2 | We 've already got that have n't we ? , we 've already been told that have n't we ? |
| 3 | By then the press had already been told that the likelihood was that this was a terrorist act : the media were already speculating on whether the perpetrators were Arab or Irish . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I said , ‘ I 've just been told that Punch is closing . ’ |
| 6 | Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 11 | I I 've just been told I 've just been told that our entire switchboard is totally lit up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 15 | Now , I mean , we 've always been told that this is , been an efficient run County Council , and that the the scope for making savings is just not there . |
| 16 | Yeah you 've always been told you 've always been told that they are . |
| 17 | The Tribunal found , however , that no employee had ever been told that the practice could result in dismissal and the practice had continued , although management trying to impose the change may not have been aware that it continued . |
| 18 | She had learned the harp because she had once been told that she had beautiful elbows , and harp playing seemed to make better use than most careers of the Lord 's stingy gift . |
| 19 | They have also been told that Sheffield United want a record busting £4m for Brian Deane , but Forest could give Standard Liege striker Shalom Tikva his big chance . |
| 20 | I 've also been told that some of my shots would make very good ‘ New Age ’ album covers , so you never know . |
| 21 | The borough council has also been told that its measures designed to compensate property-owners for groundwater damage that might result from the barrage , were ‘ gravely inadequate ’ . |
| 22 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 23 | She has also been told that she must not remain in the room after 11:30pm and that the campus is off limits for her 18-month-old miniature dachshund . |
| 24 | and someone and we 've now been told that we have to pay for it , and I |
| 25 | A teenager who thought that he 'd won more than a hundred thousand pounds on a bet has today been told that he 'll get just seven hundred and twenty eight pounds . |
| 26 | An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 . |
| 27 | However , inner-city speakers normally , and quite consistently , have [ ae ] and [ Ε ] in items where the vowel precedes a velar consonant ( as noted above ) , and I have sometimes been told that this is affected by RP . |
| 28 | It is vital to remember that we have not yet been told that Sarah will be the mother of the son of the promise . |
| 29 | Next , has the Association of Chief Police Officers yet been told that as from April they will have to take on this burden of work which has been removed from the British Transport Police as a result of an error in a Government Bill . |
| 30 | The boy had never been told that his father was killed in battle in Flavonia , in an earlier attempt to seize the throne for the Vallens dynasty . |