Example sentences of "[pron] have been told [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 2 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 3 | I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist . |
| 4 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 5 | I 've been told that on Tuesday . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 7 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 8 | No , I have been told that |
| 9 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 10 | I have been told these engines were derated to 90hp by a plate under the carbs . |
| 11 | so if she had been told that |
| 12 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 13 | Coun Shephard said : ‘ I have a letter from a headmaster and have spoken to families who have been told this . |
| 14 | No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds . |
| 15 | We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five/eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now . |
| 16 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 17 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 18 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 19 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 20 | Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 21 | He 'd been told that often enough in the old days . |
| 22 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |