Example sentences of "was tell that [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The court was told that at the time he thought he had AIDS .
2 Bristol Crown Court was told that on the day in question , the girl had gone to the shops with a friend , and stolen two cans of aerosol body spray .
3 A disciplinary panel imposed the ban on all the club 's senior players after a hearing earlier this week was told that during the Division IV match , two Cumbernauld players had been sent off .
4 A disciplinary panel imposed the ban on all the club 's senior players after a hearing earlier this week was told that during the Division IV match , two Cumbernauld players had been sent off .
5 Nottingham Crown Court was told that by the age of nine weeks , the child had fractures to both collar bones , both legs and an arm as well as a broken skull .
6 Branson was told that in the week in which the Sex Pistols might have been expected to reach number one the BPI had issued an extraordinary secret directive to the British Market Research Bureau , who compiled the charts , that all chart-return shops connected with record companies should be dropped from the weekly census of best-selling records .
7 The jury was told that inside the house police found what they called an LSD factory capable of producing millions of pounds worth of the drug .
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