Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] told that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Logan lost count of the times their luggage was detained , or they were told that a buyurulda or special permit would be necessary in addition to the tezkare they had already procured ; but Miss Fergusson , with assistance from a dragoman whose own brief display of independent thought had been snuffed out early on , harried , demanded and succeeded . |
| 2 | At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases . |
| 3 | And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do . |
| 4 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 5 | There was always political sparring around the bar when these two people were present and I am told that not many rounds were bought , but many rounds were fought . |
| 6 | And I am told that another Metro got similar treatment in Newtownards on that Friday evening . |
| 7 | If they were n't , and I 'm told that it was Babes In Toyland who were full of doughnuts , then what 's their excuse for sounding like this ? |
| 8 | Well , if the weather stays fine you 'll find plenty of nice walks , and I 'm told that the house at Otters ' Bay is comfortable enough these days . |
| 9 | I 'm , I 'm under pressure for two decisions , Paul is here to speak to his paper and has to be in Sandwell at two o'clock , and I 'm told that the canteen closes at one thirty . |
| 10 | I came as a foreigner and I 'm told that Suffolk people were stand-offish , difficult to get to know and you 'd be a foreigner for years . |
| 11 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 12 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 13 | The wood opposite was smoking with dusk again and I was looking forward to seeing the orderly , when my door was opened and I was told that I would be moved across to the main camp at once . |
| 14 | He could get up to all sorts of tricks and I was told that when another one of the lads at the same farm applied for a job as a coachman , Grandad gave him a reference . |
| 15 | First , my pet rabbit died ; one morning I found it stiff and cold in its hutch , for no apparent reason , and I was told that it was dead . |
| 16 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 17 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 18 | Last night I visited the Queen Mary and Westfield college in the Mile End road and I was told that it was soon to have a level of computers of almost one work station for every six students . |
| 19 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 20 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 21 | Er and I was told that I was n't entitled to any money anyway because I was self-employed and I only paid the stamp . |
| 22 | they 're not putting money into delegated budgets now , I , I , I was a teacher , a head teacher and I was told that the erm , the essential , the educational departments finding more money for devices and to give advice to school , now , they 're all unnecessary as it is , I would say , we are the ones that carry out the job , we 're on the ground , we 've got to do it . |
| 23 | His father 's library was open to him and we are told that his ‘ father set him very early to learn portions of the works of the best English poets by heart , so that at a very early age he could repeat large portions of Shakespeare , Milton , and Spenser ’ . |
| 24 | The alleged motive which John did not dispute was that he committed this crime to conceal another crime being the murder of MOIR McILCHENICH widow in Ellister and we are told that the last mentioned murder of the widow was " discovered " ( probably means committed ) by him and others . |
| 25 | In the church , the blacks have no hymnbooks , and we are told that even if they had them they probably could not read them , showing that the blacks are oppressed and have no opportunity of an education . |
| 26 | They are responsible about their productive processes and they are responsible about the design of car engines and we are told that the market will find ways to deal with this , but surely it can not , for after all the market is mindless , so it can not take into account either the future or the needs and wishes of people other than those who have the purchasing power for immediate consumption . |
| 27 | That is to say that both bitmap and vector graphics are supported a la Corel 3 , but a lot faster ( and we 're told that this being a Beta version , there 's a fair amount of debugging code in the software that will slow it down . |
| 28 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |
| 29 | We have asked questions about clearing the grass up afterwards and we 're told that would probably be two or three times the amount in the contract and in the actual , at the end of the day you get what you 're paid for , you get what you pay for , and if you do n't provide the resources or you ca n't provide the resources , I should say , then obviously you 've got ta make do with second best . |
| 30 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |