Example sentences of "[was/were] tell the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates were told the fine would be paid within 28 days by the Catholic Church . |
| 2 | Yes they all wanted clean rivers , but then when they were told the price of complying with the urban waste water directive , they were less keen . |
| 3 | Third Division Torquay were told the colour would make visitors feel less competitive . |
| 4 | But they were told the doctors were good . ’ |
| 5 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 6 | The row behind leaned forward to ask what was so funny and were told the story . |
| 7 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 8 | But last week they were told the trial would again be delayed , possibly as late as May next year . |
| 9 | Asking why , were told the Standard had written a story on ‘ a dominatrix club I 'm a member of ’ , in which they 'd described the Penthouse Pet as ‘ plump ’ . |
| 10 | Of Manner In They did the job in the way they were told the clause in the way they were told qualifies did . |
| 11 | Dooling and Lachman argue that the better performance of the subjects who were told the title of the passage reflects their greater ability to organise the words in the passage in memory . |
| 12 | ( A similar finding emerged in the Dooling and Lachman ( 1971 ) experiment discussed earlier where more words closely related to the theme of the passage were incorrectly recalled when subjects were told the title of the passage before being presented with it . ) |
| 13 | Magistrates were told the case had been discontinued . |
| 14 | Yes it only took four or five minutes until you were told the occupants were secure but then it er everybody waited for the C I D to arrive . |
| 15 | We were told the lawyers of Lord 's were worried that a statement might unleash a torrent of writs against newspapers . |
| 16 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 17 | Georgian officials who protested to the Russian army headquarters in the Black Sea resort of Gudauta , claimed they were told the attack was to avenge Saturday 's shelling of a Russian army unit stationed in Abkhazia . |
| 18 | But when the owners later asked for permission to erect a temporary office , they were told the greenhouse itself should have had permission … and it would have to come down . |
| 19 | Spectators were told the wind had increased . |
| 20 | When , therefore , Ministers were told the truth for which they were wholly unprepared , they were dazed . |
| 21 | But after reading reports magistrates were told the youth had had difficulty coming to terms with his father 's recent death . |
| 22 | Members were told the weighbridge had already been installed and work on some of the other projects had also begun . |
| 23 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 24 | When further requests were made at 2.10pm and 2.15pm callers were told the ambulance was on its way , he said . |
| 25 | But members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site built without Department of Environment grant aid was extremely basic and fell short of the type of accommodation provided on county council-owned sites . |
| 26 | Members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site was extremely basic . |
| 27 | An unhappy crowd were told the step had to be taken to attract more students and so protect the college 's long-term future . |
| 28 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 29 | Members were told the move would compensate for the loss of car parking spaces in the High Street . |
| 30 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |