Example sentences of "told [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is told through the eyes of the crews who man the engines and it is an interesting way of conducting you over one of Britain 's most interesting and picturesque routes . |
| 2 | Iranian Pourfarrokh created Vertex in response to TV news reports on the Gulf War … the bursting forth of everything we feel in a world of unfulfilled dreams … dreams which are as varied as the people who dream them … a poem told through the bodies of the poets : the dancers . |
| 3 | When we arrived at King 's Cross I was told for the sake of reality I must find my own way to the Savoy Hotel , although the film crew would be close by in case of emergency . |
| 4 | The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund : |
| 5 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 6 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 7 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 8 | He says he was told about the Oxford ring 12 years ago by the former MI5 agent , Peter Wright , whose book Spycatcher caused such a stir . |
| 9 | Ghislain Pascal of Survival International says the Amerindians who live in the area have not been told about the logging plans and deplores the fact that " Samling — which has devastated the lands of the Dayak peoples in Sarawak — should ever be able to negotiate a deal without social and environmental impact assessment being carried out . " |
| 10 | All the soldiers who served in Bosnia have been told about the possibility of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the atrocities they have seen . |
| 11 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 12 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 13 | We are not told about the proceeds from the sale of the land in 1986/87 , but if £20,000 tax is at stake , expert professional advice could be worthwhile . |
| 14 | A classic story is told about the unveiling of a vast poster showing a dish piled high with baked beans . |
| 15 | More than 70 delegates at the Edinburgh conference were told about the dumping of unsafe products on emerging eastern European democracies . |
| 16 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 17 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 18 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 19 | Oslear was determined to see the truth told about the ball-tampering . |
| 20 | When told about the consequences of excessive drinking , their attitude may be to welcome death as a more permanent solution to their problems . |
| 21 | The decision was taken earlier in the year and the employees were identified and told about the decision before the year end . |
| 22 | No solicitor can sue for fees unless the client has been told about the remuneration certificate procedure . |
| 23 | Women are told about the service when they have contact with the child protection team . |
| 24 | They were told about the successes — and pitfalls — of recycling schemes in action , EEC legislation , and given an industry update . |
| 25 | The police were also told about the yacht Ouvéa and its four-man French crew and on 15 July officers flew to Norfolk Island to interrogate them , although Maniguet had left the island for Australia that morning . |
| 26 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 27 | Yet the frustratingly small amount we are told about the marriage emerges in the form of Paulina 's anguished revelations rather than as the outcome of discussion and challenge . |
| 28 | The jokes told about the Irish in England are told about the Belgians in France . |
| 29 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 30 | The nation should be told about the chaos , poverty and hardship that the Government have created in deprived areas throughout the country . |