Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go on and on , I 'd been told . |
| 2 | Murder was habit-forming , so I 'd been told . |
| 3 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 4 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 5 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 6 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 7 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 8 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 9 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 10 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 11 | People with cats live longer , I 'd been told . |
| 12 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 13 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 14 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 15 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 16 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 17 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 18 | Or so I had been told . |
| 19 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 20 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |
| 21 | I had been told Chinchero was a traditional Andean market and I was interested to see the campesino culture at its most effective . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging . |
| 24 | No boats could be seen , all the big luggers had gone to Dunkirk , I had been told . |
| 25 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 26 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 27 | It was getting dark and the wind had freshened , the rain gusting through the length of the shed so I decided that it was time to pack up and head for the nearest hospitable pub where I had been told I would be able to get a good meal of hot pie and peas . |
| 28 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 29 | I had been told that the new drug had side-effects . |
| 30 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |