Example sentences of "was tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 2 | ‘ It was told me before . ’ |
| 3 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 4 | Yeah , she got married er it was told me . |
| 5 | Erm Owen was told we 'd got to . |
| 6 | ‘ I was told they had contributed to the terror almost as much as the terror was used against them , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 7 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 8 | When he opened the door and his house filled with strangers , he was told they had the right to take his two children away . |
| 9 | She was told they had a warrant and there was nothing she could do about it . |
| 10 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 11 | I enquired where they cam from and was told they were imported from Holland , only in the one size , 6–7″ ( for economic reasons ) and that they cleaned the bottom of the pond . |
| 12 | I was told they would look into my case and get back to me . |
| 13 | The victim asked why the clerks had n't bothered to help and was told they thought he was ‘ mucking about with his mates . ’ |
| 14 | On enquiring of the cause , Susa-no-wo was told they had been obliged to offer their eight daughters , one by one , to the eight-headed dragon of Koshi and it was now the turn of the last daughter . |
| 15 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 16 | She complained to the police and the NSPCC but was told they could not act as there was no visible bruising on the boy . |
| 17 | When I queried this difference at the check-out I was told they had to go by the ‘ scan ’ price . |
| 18 | ‘ The president had asked if the runways were being closed and he was told they were n't . |
| 19 | I was told they know how to honour their dead in the Highland regiments but the next time I go to Edinburgh I will gaze up at Dad Tam , and see both of my sons in that solid likeness ( despite the Kitchener moustache ) . |
| 20 | She inquired at the trading standards department about the legality of catapults but was told they were sold at fishing tackle shops because anglers use them to hurl their bait into the water . |
| 21 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 22 | ‘ I was astonished when I was told they did n't want anyone from Scotland for they were only taking on Irish staff . |
| 23 | His mother , from Newquay , Cornwall , complained to the police and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children but was told they could take no action . |
| 24 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 25 | Sweeting also confirmed that the Miss Johnson story originated from his aunt who , as he wittily put it , ‘ could only know what was told her ! ’ |
| 26 | I was told you had escaped . |
| 27 | " My lord , I was told you were back . " |
| 28 | I was told you were intuitive , original , and well-connected . ’ |
| 29 | I tried to call you there but was told you 'd left for home . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was told you wished to see me , sir , ’ Callaghan said stiffly . |