Example sentences of "[pers pn] be told [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 2 | I was told later that many North Eastern residents were disturbed by her noise . |
| 3 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 4 | ‘ I was told once that a good vintage should be like a woman — full-bodied and generous . |
| 5 | was n't really a technical situation I thought I was told yesterday that the erm letter from the Inspe the Pollution Inspectorate was a matter of opinion . |
| 6 | Because er I was I was trying I was told yesterday that I did n't do |
| 7 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |
| 8 | We are told continually that the Labour party is united on this issue . |
| 9 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
| 10 | We were told yesterday that ‘ No comment ’ means ‘ Guilty as hell ’ , but I mean you were suggesting |
| 11 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 12 | They shop for relief from physician to physician , their self-esteem diminishes , and.their anxieties increase when they are told repeatedly that their symptoms are ‘ only due to nerves ’ . |
| 13 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 14 | It was after the NCB took over and he was told straight that he was t'pack in . |