Example sentences of "court [verb] [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court has been told that , minutes later and in daylight , Mrs Wilks , 22 , was abducted , then stabbed to death . |
| 2 | This court has been told that unfortunately there had been no argument about that particular matter in the course of the hearing of the first appeal . |
| 3 | The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms . |
| 4 | — The court has been told that the order did not in fact contain that recitation . |
| 5 | The court has been told that the girl had stolen the aersol she was using to inhale . |
| 6 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 7 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 8 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 9 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 10 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 11 | The court has been told that How cheated his clients by putting their money into risky investments and property deals . |
| 12 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |
| 13 | Preston Cro Crown Court has been told that the two boys accused of murdering the Merseyside toddler James Bulger each blamed the other for attacking the child . |
| 14 | Preston Crown Court has been told that the two eleven year old boys accused of murdering the Merseyside toddler James Bulger , blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 15 | The court had been told that the boys made up stories after the accused had thrown them out of his home for stealing cigarettes . |
| 16 | The court had been told that Pask stabbed Doctor Howe to death just hours after she arrived at York University to teach a summer school . |
| 17 | Gavin , 35 , stole more than £3,000 from a fund set up to help grieving families , the court had been told . |
| 18 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 19 | The court 's been told it was probably done by a three year old boy . |
| 20 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park . |
| 21 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her This report from Chris Throup . |