Example sentences of "have [been] tell " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 32 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 33 | To his evident surprise , Dr Ashok Kumar has been telling us what a civilised place the House of Commons is . |
| 34 | Several times an unsuccessful council candidate in Washington East ( ‘ it would frighten the life out of me if I got in ’ ) he has been telling us how his work and his passionate concern combine . |
| 35 | Sedgefield Tory candidate Nick Jopling whose father Michael has long occupied a safe seat at Westminster has been telling the Diary the poignant story of the lowest point of his life . |
| 36 | Arthur Scargill , love him or loathe him , has been telling us but nobody listens . |
| 37 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 38 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |
| 39 | Chairman of the Oxfordshire branch of the Council , Julian Blackwell has been telling Robin Powell that he 's delighted . |
| 40 | Eric Forth has been telling an international petroleum seminar in Dunstable that there 's no need to step in and limit the price rises . |
| 41 | Our Washington correspondent Nick Peters has been telling Richard Dalling about the likely issues up for discussion . |
| 42 | In any case , as General Manager , Denis Baston has been telling Robin Powell , such major changes require careful consideration . |
| 43 | The court has been told that , minutes later and in daylight , Mrs Wilks , 22 , was abducted , then stabbed to death . |
| 44 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 45 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
| 46 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 47 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 48 | The commission has been told to report its findings by the end of February . |
| 49 | ‘ He has been told that if there is another occasion he will attract an indefinite period of time out of the game . |
| 50 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
| 51 | Our heart pumps faster , and we take a firm grip on the large , green-and-white golf umbrella by which Denice has been told to recognize us . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
| 54 | It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose . |
| 55 | … your Servant has been told , |
| 56 | Robyn has been told that he once had a beard , and he is forever fingering his chin as if he missed it . |
| 57 | The following story has been told on more than one occasion : |
| 58 | The child who has been told that he is ‘ useless ’ , ‘ stupid ’ or will ‘ never amount to anything ’ will go on to become an adult whose Inner Face is that of a worthless individual — even If events prove that the truth is very different . |
| 59 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 60 | Whatever the nurse staffing arrangements , each one needs to know what the patient has been told and what currently appears to be understood . |