Example sentences of "was told [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he protested , he was told to ignore the summons . |
| 2 | When Nicholas was told to leave the television off , he kept putting it on , and eventually it was left on — to give his parents a bit of peace . |
| 3 | Bitterly disappointed , Couper complained to Wurtz and was told to leave the laboratory immediately . |
| 4 | Former policeman Tom Finnegan was told to leave the house in Middleton St George , near Darlington in a row over unpaid rent . |
| 5 | I went into work and was told to see the manager . |
| 6 | An element of surprise was needed , so Roberts , the ‘ stopper ’ , was told to join the attack . |
| 7 | As soon as the contamination was confirmed , he was told to treat the information as confidential . |
| 8 | X-rays were taken , his condition was pronounced not serious , and he was told to attend the next month if he was n't better . |
| 9 | He was told to lock the door if he went out . |
| 10 | He was told to ask the tenant farmer , Mr. Blyth , to remove the horse forthwith . ) |
| 11 | Zsa Zsa Gabor was told to drop the price of her £7.5 million Bel Air home by £3 million when she decided to move . |
| 12 | The operator was told to expect the ambulance in five to seven minutes . |
| 13 | As soon as the shooting stopped , Valenzuela was told to pull the body away from the house . |
| 14 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 15 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 16 | He was told to unlock the premises and his assailants then helped themselves to a large quantity of cigarettes and cash . |
| 17 | When I asked where I should send the woman I was told to contact the neurosurgical bed manager , who would tell me which ward to send her to . |