Example sentences of "i [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 2 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 3 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 4 | But even had I been told something of the nature of their relationship , I am not sure that I would have understood or believed , or felt betrayed . |
| 5 | I am told that the Chinese name for them ( the shrub comes from China ) is ‘ cat droppings ’ . |
| 6 | Fulham even invited the public to dump their refuse in the ground in order to erect rudimentary terracing and so , I am told , did Stirling Albion . |
| 7 | I am , I am told , a post-feminist merely because I prefer a constructive approach to the achievement of equality rather than one that is essentially negative . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most wonderful place on earth ( though I am told on good authority that the souvenir shop at Graceland takes some beating ) has to be Niagara falls . |
| 9 | Next year I shall plant crown imperials , Fritillaria imperialis , round the garden as I am told this will deter even the most persistent mole . |
| 10 | His wife who I am told still resides up at Fiesole has been heard to call her husband ‘ the old Brute ’ and when a wife speaks thus I am more of a mind to listen than not . |
| 11 | I am told £1,000 a week is not unknown among manual workers . |
| 12 | NOW THAT Lord Cholmondeley has sold the Holbein to the National Gallery , he will be getting on with his film career , I am told . |
| 13 | ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country . |
| 14 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 15 | Gilbert Petrides has produced the 52-minute video film , Fabris has written the book — which , I am told , contains exclusive documents on the painter 's years of imprisonment for alcoholism . |
| 16 | Young bourgeois wives , I am told , solved the problem by heaving the basket home to mother , who is still likely to have a bonne to wash it . |
| 17 | Now that I have also fitted 750 x 16 SAT tyres the vehicle is very sluggish , I am told the solution would be to change the diffs , but to which ones ? |
| 18 | I am told it was never finished , that it never will be finished , that it is not worth finishing . |
| 19 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 20 | I am told that none of the new franchise applications have senior women as part of their management . |
| 21 | He took his fairly primitive , but hardly portable , cine-camera and got , I am told , unique film of the whaling operations . |
| 22 | I did not hear them say this , but I am told that they do , and if you think what that would mean , I guess , whether you agree about the deer or not , that this is not a sensible suggestion . |
| 23 | I am told this is the norm . |
| 24 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |
| 25 | It was Saturday evening as we neared the low-lying reaches of sandy shore and the outlying rocks of Tiree , and the sun was setting peacefully as our steamer came alongside of the stone pier at Scaranish Harbour , and we saw a sand-environed bay with some veteran sloops fixed in the sand — no more to mount o'er the waves of ocean , and spread ample sails to the breeze of heaven — left there , I am told , because it would not be deemed lucky to break them up . |
| 26 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |
| 27 | Even more effective , I am told , is crushed garlic mixed with live yoghurt . |
| 28 | A problem with underwater limpet mines in the second world war was solved by aniseed balls , I am told . |
| 29 | I am told , the subject is not well understood . |
| 30 | I am told by Russians , who in my experience have always been frank , that he is a man of formidable intellectual capacity , and little self-importance or vanity . |