Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Kemp and her solicitor were refused access to that meeting , and were only told of the outcome some time later . |
| 2 | The police were also told about the yacht Ouvéa and its four-man French crew and on 15 July officers flew to Norfolk Island to interrogate them , although Maniguet had left the island for Australia that morning . |
| 3 | He went into hospital the day before and was only told on the day of the operation it would not go ahead . |
| 4 | He was only told of the burglary last night as he visited his sister , Anne Marie , in Hoddesdon , Herts . |
| 5 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 6 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 7 | The conference was also told about an invention which could curb kidnapping and the illicit sale of Third World babies for adoption . |
| 8 | The central committee meeting was also told by the head of its history department , David Elazar , that ‘ Todor Zhivkov lied about his prominent role in the party 's history and wartime anti-fascist struggle ’ . |
| 9 | It was a well-known story among City men and was often told as an example of what used to happen in the bad old days of ten years ago — and what , by implication , could never happen now . |
| 10 | I was frequently told of the necessity for study overseas in order to do anything worthwhile in the academic field because facilities in China were so ‘ backward ’ . |
| 11 | A second date was set for last Monday , when Mr Connelly was again told of the cancellation only at the last minute . |
| 12 | Julie says she was never told about the risk of toxoplasmosis … and she 's calling for all pregnant women to be screened for the infection : |
| 13 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |