Example sentences of "have been told [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been told simply that I object to marriage with Artai , ’ she said . |
| 3 | And while Monika has been told unofficially that she is no longer welcome as a teacher of religious studies at St Thomas More School , Bedford , Father O' Neill continues to enjoy the protection of the church as a practising priest . |
| 4 | JUDGE William Crawford , 55 , who kissed a woman usher in chambers , has been told not to resume duties for the time being . |
| 5 | A present employee must respect the confidentiality of his employer 's information even to the extent that he should not pry into information he has been told not to look at . |
| 6 | A church organist has been told not to play low notes because it could damage the spire . |
| 7 | He has been told not to drive , having developed thrombosis in his legs . |
| 8 | The interesting story of the Victoria Press has been told elsewhere . |
| 9 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 10 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
| 11 | Although the story of the Keynesian Revolution has been told before , it has not been tackled in this way before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the James Bolger murder trial in Preston the jury has been told how two the two eleven year old defendants tormented an elderly woman shortly before they allegedly abducted James Bolger . |
| 14 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 15 | An inquest has been told how an elderley man died from the treatment he was taking for his athletes foot.John Ellis took a revolutionary new drug for his condition , after years of suffering.But within a couple of months , he died from liver failure.But the makers of the drug say it 's safe for most people , and it wo n't be withdrawn.Chris Moore reports . |
| 16 | So , I have told him before because he has been told off before for talking you know at the back |
| 17 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 18 | Former nurse Joan Young , from Darlington , explains : ‘ Most children must have been told not to pick dandelions when they were younger or else they would wet the bed . |
| 19 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 20 | By Thursday of next week , most students will have been told where they stand . |
| 21 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 22 | My Lords , as we all know , having been told twice by our Minister that the cost of a pencil is twenty pence , will she now tell us what the overall cost has been and is for cash protection for grant maintained schools ? |
| 23 | No doubt James would visit Eric soon , for he had been told where he was . |
| 24 | But she had been told where she could find Georgie early that evening . |
| 25 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 26 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 27 | Management at the Hyatt hotel , situated above Seoul with dramatic views over the city , said they had been told not to discuss where the couple would sleep . |
| 28 | Well , in theory he was doing what he was supposed to do since this was the time of day he always spent with Katrine and he had been told not to vary the routine . |
| 29 | The watchman had been schooled in security and he had been told not to open the door under any circumstances . |
| 30 | A master might also hit you with a pencil box on the buttocks , if you had n't learnt your " verbs " and I was once shaken so violently for crossing out a word in my exercise book when I had been told not to , that I nearly fell down with giddiness . |