Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] tell [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 2 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 3 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 4 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 5 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 6 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 7 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 8 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 9 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |
| 10 | " I 've been told about your act . |
| 11 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 12 | ‘ And that 's another thing I 've been told about you : that you 're very ambitious . ’ |
| 13 | No , I 've been told about it . |
| 14 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 15 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 16 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 17 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 18 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 19 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 21 | Well the position which I 've been told by my company directors is that we are still trading , er a er an administration order has been taken out and we are continually , continuing to trade and er that er rules . |
| 22 | The garden resembles what I have been told of Primrose Hill . |
| 23 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 24 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 25 | Mr Parker Bowles , 52 , said he had not personally read the latest newspaper reports but added : ‘ I have been told about it . ’ |
| 26 | I have been told by the previous owner that he filled the hubs with grease instead of oil . |
| 27 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 28 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 29 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 30 | I have been told by Mr Gerald Hamilton that Boulestin 's novel called Les Fréquentations de Maurice , published about 1950 , is highly entertaining . |