Example sentences of "[be] tell at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're told at annual appraisal week . |
| 2 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 3 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 4 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 5 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 6 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 7 | Indeed would it have been told at all ? |
| 8 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 9 | The vast majority of golfers have been told at one time or another how important the legs are in the game of golf . |
| 10 | No , we have n't been told at all , have we ? |
| 11 | More rarely , such stories are told at other times to demonstrate the reverse : that policemen and women are human beings and are affected by emotionally demanding work . |
| 12 | With the nervous worry comes the loneliness : ‘ The house is quiet as the grave ’ , and the fear of the future : ‘ Though we have registered we are told at the American consulate it may last [ take ] years until we get the possibility of emigrating , the quota being overcharged . ’ |
| 13 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 14 | If you want one , we can do it at the same time as the valuation , at a reduced fee , but we must be told at the outset . |
| 15 | She would tell Felicity later on , for the Three Musketeers had no secrets from one another ; but Gay must be told at once . |
| 16 | Cheryl Wragg , 34 , was airlifted 150 miles for the operation , just weeks after 10-year-old Adele 's appeal , only to be told at the last minute the lungs were unsuitable . |
| 17 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 18 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 19 | If you require payments on account of costs or in advance of disbursements , or you reserve the right to raise hourly rates during the lifetime of the case , the client must be told at the outset of the case . |
| 20 | There 's one case , however , where a buyer can be told at the inception of a matter that the lease will provide that it ca n't be assigned without the lessor 's licence : the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and one or two other bodies insist on such a covenant in all their leases . |
| 21 | Planners will be told at a meeting debating the move that waste dumping 250 yards from the setts will cause the badgers no harm . |
| 22 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 23 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 24 | No , there will be guidelines and you 're in the know anyway so you 'd be telling at your curriculum area meetings , you 'd be saying |
| 25 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 26 | How many of us , 1 wonder , were told at school to ‘ stop daydreaming ’ . |
| 27 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 28 | Officers were told at first that there were two different tapes in existence . |
| 29 | JAMES Bulger did not die in vain , we were told at his funeral this week . |
| 30 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |