Example sentences of "to [be] told [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moved enough , anyway , to abandon their days work and come here to be told that the trumpet would sound , and poor old Eddy be raised incorruptible ? |
| 2 | Captain Budd got through to the police station by telephone , only to be told that the constabulary had the situation well in hand . |
| 3 | The most important figure in the latter group is Bunting himself , so little read these days that many readers will need to be told that the title of Davie 's history refers to his masterpiece Briggflatts ( 1966 ) . |
| 4 | Upon landing , he filed an airmiss report only to be told that the glider had landed successfully with part of its wingtip missing near Axel . |
| 5 | Chris [ Stocks ] was a little surprised to say the least when he arrived home from his holiday to be told that The sun newspaper had been trying to contact him , asking him to go to London to play a practical joke on the king of practical jokers Chris Evans . |
| 6 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |
| 7 | We do not need to be told that the factory girls were probably doing their best to make sure that it was impossible for her to pass without brushing against them , and that this would be construed as an insult . |
| 8 | I complained mightily , only to be told that the stone table was a well-intentioned afterthought , erected in recent times , and that it had been removed to restore the henge to its original form . |
| 9 | They do not need advice on how to gain similar wealth abroad , or to be told that the prospect of working on charities ' accounts for lower fees is not so abhorrent . |
| 10 | At 18.20 , I again checked with the information office , to be told that the train was due soon . |
| 11 | In the words of others he springs into action as a political firebrand , marching into the coal-owners ' offices and demanding justice for their exploited work-force , only to be told that the coal seams were too meagre and the profit margin too small to provide improvements in safety standards . |
| 12 | In a typical case in which a husband , seeking a bank advance for his business purposes , is told by his bank manager that security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home must be provided , it would astonish both the husband and the bank manager to be told that the husband had been appointed by the bank as its agent to obtain the wife 's consent to the proposed charge . |
| 13 | There is nothing more annoying to a journalist who is working on a story than to be told that the PRO will ring back with the relevant numbers and then not to get them for another two or three days . |
| 14 | He rang the bell , and was asked in by the maid — only to be told that the family were at dinner . |