Example sentences of "[verb] [been] told [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family has been told a rabbit would be allowed on the head stone of the infant in the parish church . |
| 2 | ‘ The car is at the garage now and Elton has been told the damage can be repaired and the car will be back on the road as soon as possible . ’ |
| 3 | Now Philip McKenna has been told the council is pulling the block from under him . |
| 4 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 5 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 6 | The clerk to the council , Mr Harry Whitehouse , received several letters from residents complaining about dogs fouling the green and nearby private gardens and he has been told the dog warden will be sent more regularly . |
| 7 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 8 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 9 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 10 | In fact the ack-ack unit , who thought , or hoped , they might be protecting the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret , in residence at Windsor Castle , almost missed the fun entirely , having been told the raid would be at 2 a.m . |
| 11 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 12 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 13 | He had been told a little of his history , and knew that there would be more explanations at the end of this journey . |
| 14 | It was , however , reported by his personal staff that he did manage a smirk when he had been told the story of how his arch rival and competitor had been conned by his countrymen on a flag-flying visit to the auld counthrie . |
| 15 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , the group which had been told the topic in advance performed best on the tests . |
| 17 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 18 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |
| 19 | His son , Li Yuan , had seen it all five years before , in those first few days after he had been told the secret of their world — the Great Lie upon which everything was built . |
| 20 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 21 | Coun Williams added officers had contacted the African National Congress ' London office for guidance and had been told the organisation would not welcome trade with the country while sanctions are still in place . |
| 22 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 23 | Mr MacArthur said : ‘ The pilot said he had been told the weather was bad on Mull and that he might fly on to Tiree . |
| 24 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 25 | ‘ Lance-Corporal Trumper , ’ said Tommy in disbelief after he had been told the news . |
| 26 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 27 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 28 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 29 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 30 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |