Example sentences of "a [noun sg] i [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | And within er a week I was told to go into the dry part , handling , in the buffing shop . |
| 2 | about one a month I 'm told , I think |
| 3 | This fact reminds me of a tale I was told in the States recently whereby President Clinton and his wife Hilary and Major Kay drove into a garage , quite why this was necessary the tale does not relate , as the petrol or gas attendant began to fill up the limousine , Hilary Clinton leaped out of the car and became involved in an animated conversation with the petrol attendant . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not a celebrity , ’ she says with a levelness I was told to expect . |
| 5 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 6 | After about an inch I was told to switch off while he checked the angle and depth of cut . |