Example sentences of "[be] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bass have spent months working on the deal and we 're told they will not even bother to attend tomorrow 's meeting of Premier clubs . |
| 2 | The other thing that 's been done , erm , and has been ongoing now for some months without too much success , but things seem to be moving a little bit , at least we 're told they are , is that I I pressed for , not really a presentation but a technical meeting , I wanted to get there there product engineers |
| 3 | We 're told it 's good at garbage collecting , has built-in exception handling and strong type checking . |
| 4 | We 're told it 's a low-cost desktop with a built-in PCI bus . |
| 5 | We 're told it comes with four Rios RISC processors , 2Gb RAM , 6Gb or more disk , 2Gb per-second fibre optic channel input/output and will perform at 400 MFLOPS . |
| 6 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 7 | Oh no it 's the same sort of thing you 're told it when you |
| 8 | You 're told it are n't you ? |
| 9 | Erm I suggest that it is the fox because we 're told it has a sudden sharp hot stink the fox . |
| 10 | The northbound carriageway between junctions nine and ten is still blocked and we 're told it 's likely to remain blocked for the next two hours . |
| 11 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 12 | Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions |
| 13 | It stars Nolte , although we 're told he wo n't actually sing but he plays the dad of someone who does . |
| 14 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 15 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 16 | you when you learnt to drive when you came to reversing you 're told you must look |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 're tellin' me , ’ said Denis with some astonishment . |
| 19 | So you 're tell him off ! |
| 20 | And if you 're putting him right over clubs , you 'd better be 101 percent right if you 're telling him that what he 's got in mind is the wrong thing . |
| 21 | If you , if you 're telling him not to look at it , they say look the other way it 's nothing to do with you . |
| 22 | No , we 're telling the government , we 're telling them they 've got it wrong excuse me . |
| 23 | be six million people in the world are taking this drug saying it 's really really helping them and you 're telling them it 's crap . |
| 24 | Working in Grendon must be one of the most difficulkt places for an officer becausec we 're telling them they 're not dependant on their uniform but their personality and ability to relate to people . |
| 25 | You 're telling them yoursen . |
| 26 | But basically you 're telling them that it 's almost an accomplished fact and erm they probably do n't have too much room for manoeuvre . |
| 27 | So it is not as though it 's a young player who 's going out of the game and you 're telling them I 'm sorry your not going to make it with Warwickshire . |
| 28 | You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're telling me , ’ Billy continued . |
| 30 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |