Example sentences of "[being] told [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sgt Newman 's father , Eric , 58 , suffered a mild angina attack after being told of the shooting , and was being cared for by a neighbour last night . |
| 2 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 3 | Her oil worker husband , Les , flew home after being told of the tragedy … on his 40th birthday . |
| 4 | When the messenger arrived in his camp bringing news of his call to the throne , all Imrik said was ‘ Why ? ’ , and upon being told of the murders , he commented ‘ Bad , very bad ’ , which was considered quite long-winded for him . |
| 5 | In the Board 's view it is not open to the plaintiff on these pleadings to allege that Mr. Brant would have agreed to the plaintiff being told of the offer for Vertigo . |
| 6 | However , many of my colleagues were a little concerned that they were being told of the final outcome , but nothing on the short term effects . ’ |
| 7 | Possibly world war III was brewing up in Nicaragua — he mentioned that to North , though North doubted it , thought the Russians would never fight for the place — and here was he , O'Boyle , being told about the innermost strategic details . |
| 8 | Some patients , perhaps especially those who express anxiety about the risk of fire or who are known to have experienced a fire , may welcome being told about the fire precautions in the ward . |
| 9 | A horse that is empathic with another knows how the other feels without it being told through the usual senses of sight , hearing , touch , and smell . |
| 10 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 11 | Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside . |
| 12 | Both Soul and Brief History include Stephen Hawking 's anecdote about being told by the Pope that scientists might properly study the universe after the Big Bang , but that the bang , or Creation , itself , was the province of God . |
| 13 | Rugby has survived all these years as a good robust contact sport , and as we are always being told by the medical profession that modern youth is bigger , stronger and fitter than children of previous generations , why ca n't we play rugby as it is supposed to be played rather than a genteel non-contact pass ball ? |
| 14 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 15 | The Muzak reached a gap as she was about to knock on the door and she could hear he was being told by the hotel that his credit was n't good . |
| 16 | Why otherwise would the right hon. Member for Chesterfield feel the need to table such a motion and why would 24 other Members sign it , if they had real confidence in what they were being told by the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen and agreed with them ? |
| 17 | But , we , we really need to er , put the cart before the horse , or the horse before the cart as you may say , I mean , we are now being told by the leader of the Conservative group , that er , we 're going to , we , we should be supporting the idea of amateur parish constables . |
| 18 | Boyd 's team visited the ten pits after being told by the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to establish whether British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |