Example sentences of "[be] tell [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions |
| 2 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 3 | I am told it made wonderful television . |
| 4 | The walkers who had wangled the lift with him looked as if they had been told they had a week to live , suggesting the car conversation must have fulfilled my expectations . |
| 5 | They had been told they had NO chance of a refund after Tjolle declared himself bankrupt , even though he removed £400,000 from the company before it collapsed . |
| 6 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 8 | They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations . |
| 9 | AN UNPRECEDENTED string of deaths and life-threatening collapses began on a hospital children 's ward after a nurse had been told she lacked experience caring for sick youngsters , a court was told yesterday . |
| 10 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 11 | Cypriot authorities had been told he had been smuggled from the country . |
| 12 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 13 | I 've been told he left the accountancy firm where he worked , and that he 's joined his uncle , Matthew Wilder , who owns a back-country property between Napier and Taupo . |
| 14 | I 've been told he paid the widow money . |
| 15 | It was taken off me at Widnes , with Jonathan Davies doing most of the tactical kicking , and I 've been told it cost me a Great Britain tour chance . |
| 16 | They must have been bred , one thinks , and indeed we are told they multiplied ‘ after the manner of the children of llúvatar ’ , i.e. sexually . |
| 17 | On Weathertop we are told he had no such conscious and immoral thought . |
| 18 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 19 | So I phone Automec to be told they had n't heard of Their product causing any such problem and as silicone is a lubricant , it would not have any adverse effect on rubber . |
| 20 | And somehow she did n't need to be told they had arrived . |
| 21 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |
| 22 | Common decency insisted that Vitor must be told he had a son . |
| 23 | Clark was surprised to be told he had broken the course record by 26 seconds . |
| 24 | To be told he had an attitude problem was astonishing , ’ said Botham . |
| 25 | They had floated into a dream world of their own , and Lucy 's pulses were racing as she waited to be told he loved her . |
| 26 | It remains to be told who played hoax , and why . |
| 27 | In fact I 'm told we ran the three-day week so well that it did n't make enough impact on the country ; they did n't realize the crisis and thought they would n't support Ted Heath . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm told you had a — well , a bit of a row with him . ’ |
| 29 | In celebration , I 'm told you shot off every flare you could get your hands on . |
| 30 | I 'm told I 'd got arthritis in there , but that 's years ago . |