Example sentences of "[was/were] tell their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At Briefing , the Mosquito crews were told their markings must be very accurate in order to avoid civilian casualties . |
| 2 | At the head office in Witney yesterday staff were told their fate as the limited company was declared insolvent with debts of more than three hundred thousand pounds a year . |
| 3 | Two Kurds were injured , one seriously , in a fire inside their locked room at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow airport a day after they were told their application for political asylum in Britain had failed . |
| 4 | The gap between what history teachers were telling their classes and what people instinctively knew to be true had become unbearably wide . |
| 5 | Rather , they were telling their wives what politics was all about . |