Example sentences of "[vb past] been tell the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 2 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 3 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 4 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 5 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 6 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 7 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 8 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 9 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |