Example sentences of "we have [been] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 2 | Two Spanish climbers above us were working on the overhanging 6b pitches and although we 'd been told you could aid the whole section it was obvious from the stance that the bolts were too far apart . |
| 3 | We 'd been told which room would be used for the meeting so we did n't have to search the whole building . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 6 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 7 | We 'd been told there would be no anti-constitutional slogans or ones that er that called for violence of any kind . |
| 8 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 9 | At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro . |
| 10 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been told your entire street has gone , ’ he sighed . |
| 12 | Kathie is all Nell has got , we 've been told this several times ; he appeals to Nell as the mother of their only child , not to cause her to leave home . |
| 13 | We 've been told that we have to type it all in . |
| 14 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been told it 's impossible because it 's full up , and I for one am very disappointed . |
| 16 | Andrée said , ‘ Oh , yes , we 've been told that before , people seemed to find it surprising . |
| 17 | Following , from what was said there we know that there 's , that there 's a limited pot for mental health because that 's the way it 's going to be , we 've been told that so there 's a real big job for women |
| 18 | I know all this , we 've been told it and told it and I 've said it . |
| 19 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |
| 20 | Although we must never give up hoping that Peter will recover from the terrible illness of addiction — for it is an illness — we 've been told to face the possibility that this might just never happen . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid we ca n't help you at the moment — we 've been told simply that Mr. Andrew is away from the office . |
| 22 | We 've actually been successful in that again because we 've got , last year I think we got six thousand pounds , and this year we 've been told we can have eighty percent of the same again . |
| 23 | We 've been told that it has n't been trialed because it was produced in a hurry . |
| 24 | No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds . |
| 25 | And we 've been told that we 'll only get between a nought and one point five percent increase at the most . |
| 26 | I 'm sure they wo n't from what we 've been told . |
| 27 | " We should leave the whale alone ; that 's what we 've been told . " |
| 28 | We 've been told if we go over the two pound , they wo n't sell , sell so well , erm , so really I 'm not too sure , but er , I , I can work on bigger , er , like I got this couple of days off living Manchester , I 'm sure if I approach erm , you know , the police , they might give me a couple of days selling out there . |
| 29 | where we 've got to with our recycling initiative , and then we can look at that grant in the light of what we 've been told by Carol . |
| 30 | Yes we 've been told . |