Example sentences of "told [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owners and some of the actors were staying in the Westin Hotel which had , Nell had told everyone during dinner , a ballroom and comfort and an indoor pool on the roof . |
| 2 | In school the girls kept whispering and turning round to look at me ; Liza had told everyone . |
| 3 | Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news . |
| 4 | Kemp had told Ashenden , and Ashenden had then told everyone else , that he ( Kemp ) would not be back from London until 3 p.m . |
| 5 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll tell you something I 've told no-one else , Gregory . |
| 7 | Mr Pinder said he had seen a woman in a wheelchair throw away two tickets for an evening performance at the theatre in Newcastle after she was told no-one would be available to help her on her return journey . |
| 8 | Following the question by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) , is there not essentially a double standard when one delegation can bring whomsoever it likes to the talks , whether those people were born in the Soviet Union or the United States , and another delegation is told whom it can and whom it can not bring ? |
| 9 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 10 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 11 | The town centre hotels which were suggested were fiendishly expensive and at first I was told nothing else was available . |
| 12 | First , though MI5 is notionally under the control of the Home Secretary he will be told nothing about its day-to-day operations . |
| 13 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 14 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 15 | We are told nothing about the heir he instituted . |
| 16 | Whitehall would have known , but he 'd been told nothing . |
| 17 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 18 | I have found that one gets told nothing at all . |
| 19 | They were told nothing else ; only later they heard the abuse was supposed to have taken place outside the family . |
| 20 | Even Masonic anti-feminism surfaces in The Magic Flute : the Queen of the Night is condemned for over-ambition ; while her daughter 's trials are far greater than Tamino 's — at least he understands why he is obliged to undergo them , while Pamina is told nothing and is expected to bear her tribulations patiently and obediently until redeemed by the love of a good man . |
| 21 | About Thomas , however , we are told nothing . |
| 22 | On the one hand , the examiner wants to be told nothing that is irrelevant to the question . |
| 23 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 24 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 25 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 26 | De Craon smiled grimly to himself : Tailler had been brave and , to the very last , had told nothing but lies . |
| 27 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 28 | Chelsea have not confirmed their approach to him and the Swindon board say they 've been told nothing . |
| 29 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 30 | ‘ If it was four in the morning , he 'd have told them what to do with their water main . ’ |