Example sentences of "was told that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 2 | During the hearing , the judge was told that a deficit of £27,000 on running the playing fields in the last financial year had been met by a council subsidy . |
| 3 | Stirling was told that a new operation was being planned and that he must bring his entire force back to base . |
| 4 | Three days later , the head of the Jewish community was told that a boat was docked at Yjmuiden , ready to take any Jews who wanted to go to England . |
| 5 | In due course he was told that a short three hour trip was in the offing so he collected his parachute and went with the crew to the aircraft . |
| 6 | The court was told that a stuffed golden eagle could be worth £1,000 and the other birds could fetch £160 each . |
| 7 | Then on arrival at Peking he was told that a military coup had occurred in Ghana . |
| 8 | When the court reconvened , it was told that a key prosecution witness , Gabriel Mekgwe , had been kidnapped the night before , forcing a further adjournment . |
| 9 | I was told that a band from Levenmouth would be waiting , with a further support from the same source in three hours . |
| 10 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
| 11 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
| 12 | She was told that a colleague from the bank would be around later to pick up her card and he even rang back later to check if he had been . |