Example sentences of "had been tell [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 2 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 3 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 4 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 5 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |