Example sentences of "was tell the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury was told the men were to be paid £1,000 each with £500 expenses by Mr Brown 's wife to kill him . |
| 2 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 3 | Immediately she was told the situation — she knew the strategic implications already of the cancellation of the Finnish Expedition — Charity was full of practical ideas for the reinstatement of Charles . |
| 4 | The inquest was told the injuries were sustained during convulsions induced by narcotics . |
| 5 | ‘ I was on a visit doing some coaching when I was told the President and Secretary of State wanted to see me . |
| 6 | The zinc bath would soon be filled Charlie came back into the kitchen and was told the news . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope all the old dears over there will hold tight to the handrail , ’ was his only remark when he was told the news , but he said more to Ruth when he went home at lunch time . |
| 8 | Nobody was told the circumstances of Biddy 's new job . |
| 9 | ( I was told the May trip is great but the blackflies are very bad . |
| 10 | I was told the fun was beginning to go out of it , but now it is back as the competition for best fancy dress is nearly as tough as the race itself . |
| 11 | When Avril was told the date of her operation Peter promised to visit . |
| 12 | I was told the service was really only for pilots flying unaccompanied , who could not maintain a good lookout whilst otherwise engaged , and that the service applied essentially to commercial operations . |
| 13 | Carpenter Gordon Brettell was told the van had been discovered with tools worth £2,500 intact . |
| 14 | In a rare prosecution following an incident on the field during a Football League game , Salisbury Crown Court was told the tussle followed a clearance from defence . |
| 15 | Premier John Major was told the news as he hosted delicate talks at the European Summit in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Six months later , when she asked for it to be given to Arrowe Park Hospital , which saved her son 's life , she was told the money was in a ‘ suspense account ’ . |
| 17 | A Hull inquest was told the glass punctured his lung . |
| 18 | No mention was made of my helping with the editing , and when I enquired , I was told the programme was nowhere near that stage yet ; in fact , the producer had not yet had time to listen to the — what must be by now — at least four hours of tape . |
| 19 | In the late summer of 1986 I was told the answer was a transplant . |
| 20 | The trip had to be cancelled when Sally was told the cancer she thought was beaten had returned . |
| 21 | I failed to get my case for a share of his property and savings heard because I was told the courts do n't recognise a common-law wife . |
| 22 | When I was offered the editorship , I was told the clock stood at five to 12 . ’ |
| 23 | I was told the data was needed for the Medical Division — among a host of other activities INCUBUS owns a number of , pharmaceutical laboratories . |
| 24 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 25 | Mr Connelly , of Chantry Green , Ipswich , was told the operation could not go ahead because the five intensive care beds were already full . |
| 26 | Whitlock telephoned them the moment he returned to the hotel but when Sabrina contacted Lausanne station she was told the only afternoon train had already departed . |
| 27 | It would have been nice to have been in the presentation room when the John Smith 's brand manager was told the script of their ads . |
| 28 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 29 | Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted . |
| 30 | The second group was told the title after they had read the passage , while the third group were not told the title at all . |