Example sentences of "was told by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They created the atmosphere and mood , but the narrative was told by the dolls using specially created movements which could be called dances of character . |
| 2 | Senator Jesse Helms , the arch-conservative North Carolinian Republican , says he was told by the CIA , as well as sources within Panama , that the rebels did offer to surrender General Noriega to the US . |
| 3 | From what he was told by the Queen , by his unofficial advisers like the Dean of Westminster , and from his own conviction , Macmillan was sure that he must recommend Ramsey to the Queen . |
| 4 | Even before the report went to the printers , the Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrawclough , was told by the DTI 's most senior officer that it intended to give its own view , in a separate document , on the responsibilities of regulators . |
| 5 | Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome . |
| 6 | She was told by the Polytechnics Central Admissions System , PCAS , that she would breach her contract with them if she joined the Universities Central Council on Admissions , UCCA . |
| 7 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 8 | This , I was told by the teacher who tracked up in his car , was cross-country running . |
| 9 | But his daughter was told by the assistant , ‘ We do n't accept pensioners . |
| 10 | The story of how Harold Dennis , an outside-left from Newark , came to play for Huddersfield was told by the Worksop Guardian . |
| 11 | I was told by the team management not to make any statements to the media about the relay incident at the training track , and I stuck by that . |
| 12 | As the apostle John was told by the third angel who described the pressure of crises on faith , during his vision recounted in the book of Revelation , ‘ This is where the fortitude of God 's people has its place — in keeping God 's commands and remaining loyal to Jesus . ’ |
| 13 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 14 | She was told by the social workers not to worry , they 'd look after her . |
| 15 | At school I was told by the matron that I would die if I continued to lose weight . |
| 16 | That 's what Lee was told by the doctor |
| 17 | Chris , 42 , of Longsight , Manchester , said he was told by the driver the half gallon tin might spill . |
| 18 | From this cave cult sprang the peculiar , complicated , mixed-origin myth of the birth of Zeus Cretagenes , ‘ Cretan-born Zeus ’ , as it was told by the Greeks in the fifth century BC . |
| 19 | The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly . |
| 20 | Mr Serrano was told by the electoral authorities that he would not be able to hold either a plebiscite or elections for a new Congress , which he had hoped to do . |
| 21 | A man who reacted violently when he saw his wife in a car with a bus driver , after his wife had refused him sex for six years , was told by the Recorder of London , Sir James Miskin QC : ‘ You saw this man kissing your wife and understandably felt the misery of the situation . |
| 22 | For instance , in December 1506 , the Council , meeting for once without the King , was told by the Lord Chancellor that Henry , hearing reports from Kildare of rebellion in Ireland , proposed to lead an expedition ‘ for the repress of the wild Irish ’ . |
| 23 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 24 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 25 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 26 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 27 | Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other . |
| 28 | Here too are the baths where the crippled are immersed , and a line of taps providing water from the source that Bernadette was told by the Virgin to drink from . |
| 29 | This application was refused , but he was told by the CAA that there was an opening on the route if he wished to reapply for a licence . |
| 30 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |