Example sentences of "was told " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 2 | They could not be let into it , but there was a duty to entertain them , and , as I was told , not to stare . |
| 3 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 4 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 5 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 6 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |
| 7 | After thinking about it , Cameron replied , ‘ James , I was told a good thing once , by the sawyer at Bunarkaig . |
| 8 | ( When she was told , she was surprisingly sympathetic , and tolerant of this need for independence . |
| 9 | Rita sat in the back of the police car as she was told to do . |
| 10 | When I was told that I 'd have to share a kitchen and bathroom with strangers I could n't help thinking how this would astound the people at home , how they would snort with laughter at the idea that this could really happen in England , mother of civilization . |
| 11 | during which some part of the story was told in conventional gesture , e.g. the casting of Carabosse 's spell and the Lilac Fairy 's response in the first scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 12 | They created the atmosphere and mood , but the narrative was told by the dolls using specially created movements which could be called dances of character . |
| 13 | I was told by their breeder that I was n't giving them enough protein . |
| 14 | A TRIAL SCHEME should be set up to assess the validity of a contingent legal aid fund to finance personal injury claims for those too well-off to qualify for legal aid but too poor to pay fees , the conference was told . |
| 15 | I was told that both the new right and those who support the Government 's view — that the present blasphemy laws which protect only Christianity should be retained — had been excluded . |
| 16 | Shooter , 40 , tampered with the labels of three soft drinks bottles at company stores in Luton , Leicester and Derby , Glasgow High Court was told . |
| 17 | He went on to threaten to give details to the media , backed by further contamination of items of food throughout the country , the court was told . |
| 18 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 19 | A LONDON borough has admitted £6bn worth of deals it undertook on the money market were unlawful , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 20 | As courts began dealing with charges of theft and public order offences , a qualified referee was told he may be jailed for his part in the looting of a Blackpool jewellers . |
| 21 | A RADIO controller probably heard the voice of the killer of Marie Wilks as she telephoned for help from the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday . |
| 22 | A BARMAN was pushed over a 200ft cliff after his wife agreed to a £2,500 ‘ murder contract ’ , a court was told yesterday . |
| 23 | A PREGNANT woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in daylight had been abducted as she telephoned for help on the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday , writes Heather Mills . |
| 24 | Just 700 yards away her baby son and 11-year-old sister sat in her broken-down car , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told . |
| 25 | A knife wound had severed her jugular vein and her jaw was broken from a punch or a kick , the jury was told . |
| 26 | Fathers and other family members who admit they have sexually abused children in the home should not have to face criminal prosecution , the conference was told . |
| 27 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE was upset by the fact that Private Eye called her Rowenta Ripper , or simply Mrs Ripper , the Court of Appeal was told yesterday . |
| 28 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 29 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 30 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |