Example sentences of "be told [adv] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 2 | And while Monika has been told unofficially that she is no longer welcome as a teacher of religious studies at St Thomas More School , Bedford , Father O' Neill continues to enjoy the protection of the church as a practising priest . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been told simply that I object to marriage with Artai , ’ she said . |
| 4 | But , since she had no wish to have a discussion with him about it when for all she knew he could have telephoned her hotel yesterday or the day before and been told simply that she was n't available , she chose to assume that he did not know . |
| 5 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 6 | SERBIA will be told tomorrow that it faces total isolation unless it halts the killing in Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | The and their self-opinionated Premier , Jacques Delores , must be told clearly that we stand for co-operation of Western style democracy , not the old Eastern block style of all encompassing socialist state with the dead hand of Brussels directing policies , as Moscow did with the U S S R. Freedom of the independent nation and people must confer . |
| 8 | It was that the Shah should be told formally that it was no longer appropriate for him to come to the USA . |
| 9 | Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide . |
| 10 | She resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid when she knew she was n't . |
| 11 | For forty five years , we 're being told continually that it is the envy of the world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was after the NCB took over and he was told straight that he was t'pack in . |
| 14 | Because er I was I was trying I was told yesterday that I did n't do |