Example sentences of "[adv] [been] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , the friend of the new French Prime Minister , Georges Bidault , had apparently been told that he could not concede the fundamental issue of independence ; for the other , who was to succeed Ho on his death , and for the large and varied delegation which came to Paris under the title of the Popular National Front ( Lien Viet ) everything , practically , turned on the question of Cochinchina . |
| 2 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 3 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 4 | You 've obviously been told |
| 5 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 6 | Lord Aldington was asked why the Yugoslavs had not been told their destination before repatriation . |
| 7 | The instinctive secrecy of the Soviet Union , its propensity to lie , only fuelled the suspicions that the full truth had not been told . |
| 8 | Yet when , after Poindexter 's first day of testimony , the story-line reached its conclusion — no , the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras — viewers fell away . |
| 9 | Well , it just has not happened , and when they have decided on a theme , it has been so late at night that Ministers have not been told , ’ said one disgruntled insider . |
| 10 | ‘ Have the children not been told ? ’ the nursemaid enquired of Aunt Rose once Victoria and Richard were ahead and out of ear-shot . |
| 11 | Stirling had not been told that such a unit was operating in the target area , despite the fact that its presence might stir up the enemy . |
| 12 | Or if it had , I had not been told . |
| 13 | ‘ It was strange how Gary would often know things he had not been told . |
| 14 | With her customary curtness , Camilla insisted she had not been told in advance about the announcement . |
| 15 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 16 | Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth . |
| 17 | President F.W. de Klerk 's chief negotiator at the talks on South Africa 's new constitution had not been told about the pre-dawn raids . |
| 18 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 19 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 20 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 21 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 22 | Has it not been told to you " from beginning " ? |
| 23 | We have not been told what , if any , relationship they had to the deceased , or why they were appointed . |
| 24 | He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him . |
| 25 | All this made Rose and Oliver , who had not been told any new secrets , very nervous and uncomfortable . |
| 26 | The brothers had not been told , only Radulfus , Prior Robert , Hugh and I knew of it , leaving out of consideration Cynric 's boy , who runs errands faithfully , but barely understands what he delivers , and forgets his embassage as soon as done and rewarded . |
| 27 | ‘ If you had not been told otherwise , you might think it was all a terrific affectation — this old woman from the Dales with the luminescent skin , the saintly set of the features and the clothes from the pile which even the rag-and-bone man would probably not take … . |
| 28 | The problem is compounded by the fact that we have not been told the prices realised by the sale of the NBC 's subsidiary companies . |
| 29 | Daniel had not been told why or from where — the redoubtable Mrs Thackray had come forward at once to make her contribution to the cause . |
| 30 | She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself . |