Example sentences of "[been] told that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have felt no less if he 'd been told that Berowne was dead of a coronary or killed in a car smash . |
| 2 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I said , ‘ I 've just been told that Punch is closing . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been told that prices go to the publishers six weeks before publication , but in this instance the price had changed three months previously . |
| 4 | They have also been told that Sheffield United want a record busting £4m for Brian Deane , but Forest could give Standard Liege striker Shalom Tikva his big chance . |
| 5 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 6 | In the Gospel we have been told that Jesus will bring about a new exodus ( 9:31 ) by his death and resurrection at Jerusalem : a release from a worse bondage and a more terrible death than that which befell the Israelites in Egypt . |
| 7 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 8 | " I want you to go away , because I 've been told that Timothy is in love with you . |
| 9 | The court had been told that Pask stabbed Doctor Howe to death just hours after she arrived at York University to teach a summer school . |
| 10 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 11 | It is vital to remember that we have not yet been told that Sarah will be the mother of the son of the promise . |
| 12 | We have been told that finances for health and safety will be found but we were never told from where that money would come from . |
| 13 | Werner Kratschull , a pastor and dissident , said he had been told that East Berlin would crack down on the opposition ‘ in the Chinese manner ’ if there was trouble . |
| 14 | The Ministry of Defence has denied negligence , although Mr Ferrante has been told that RAF rules governing training at Brize Norton have been changed . |
| 15 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 16 | She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half-brother . |
| 17 | A mass meeting of council workers has been told that redundancies are unavoidable . |
| 18 | No-one had been told that Chernobyl was leaking lethal doses of radiation , polluting the air , the ground , food and water . |
| 19 | The engineering union , the AEEU , says staff have been told that Longwall is now centralising its operation in Lancashire because of Government grants available to companies creating jobs in the North . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been told that Prince Charles sleeps in one room and his lady in another , ’ said a Korean worker at the hotel . |
| 21 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 22 | Two days earlier the family had been told that tests at Darlington Memorial Hospital confirmed Mr Watson was terminally ill . |
| 23 | You will have been told that 93% — or whatever — of British women are on a diet at any one time , but that , as a nation , we are still getting fatter . |
| 24 | I have been told that synthetics are not warm enough on the one hand , or by others that they are too hot ! |
| 25 | An inquest has been told that staff failed to realise the scale of the injuries and later found the woman dead in her bed . |
| 26 | Workers at Rosyth Royal Dockyard have been told that jobs could be cut by a third over the next twelve years . |
| 27 | Earlier , the trial had been told that police had set up road blocks north of Perth as part of another inquiry when the white Cavalier containing what police described as ‘ seasoned criminals ’ had burst through . |
| 28 | In Morgan , the defendants specifically alleged that they had been told that Mrs. Morgan could be ‘ turned on ’ only by struggle and resistance . |
| 29 | BANBRIDGE Council has been told that anglers have given up fishing at Loughbrickland Lake because the fish stock has been completely destroyed by cormorants . |
| 30 | I 've been told that men do n't like women , period . |