Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But even had I been told something of the nature of their relationship , I am not sure that I would have understood or believed , or felt betrayed . |
| 4 | Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy . |
| 5 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 6 | ‘ What have you been told ? ’ |
| 7 | Have you been told this ? |
| 8 | What have you been told of me ? ’ |
| 9 | Have you been told what the cheapest term assurances are in order ? |
| 10 | Is this a have you been told off ? |
| 11 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 12 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 13 | Neither have they been told to test prisoners for drugs . |