Example sentences of "had been told [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not very worried as I had been told that the school was very good . |
| 2 | Had been told that the Prince , his son , had not visited his new wife 's bed for several days , and not through pressure of work . |
| 3 | The court had been told that the boys made up stories after the accused had thrown them out of his home for stealing cigarettes . |
| 4 | He had been told that the Chairman had with a handgun shot dead a general who had dared to argue with his strategy during the dark days of the war . |
| 5 | He said that there was definitely a mortuary in Bala and had been told that the key was kept at the police station . |
| 6 | The nuns , from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery in Daventry , had been told that the food poisoning in nearby Bedworth had been caused by Salmonella enteriditis . |
| 7 | A local publican in Rathmullan said he had been told that the vodka had been contaminated by poisonous substances in the water from a plastics factory situated near the Russian manufacturing distillery . |
| 8 | We had been told that the loans system would deter people who might otherwise have gone into higher education because of the so-called financial hardship that they would face . |
| 9 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Her family was understandably distressed at her problems , especially because they had been told that the situation would gradually get better , and in fact it had got progressively worse . |
| 11 | I had been told that the Asaimara inhabited Bahdu and Aussa while the Adoimara occupied the rest of the country . |
| 12 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |