Example sentences of "told [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in the Maternity Hospital of San Salvador , we were told to perform a monthly average of 15 sterilizations per day . |
| 2 | The most important approach , which is reaching its limits , is to increase the rate at which the computer 's components are ‘ clocked ’ , how often they are told to perform simple operations . |
| 3 | Just been told to carry on round . |
| 4 | The giant Widnes forward was told to retire just before last month 's Silk Cut Challenge Cup final because of a neck injury . |
| 5 | For example , it did little to improve parents ' view of teachers when schools in one local authority were told to implement a policy aiming to lead young children to an understanding of such things as lesbianism and homosexuality . |
| 6 | The crowd is told to go back home , and does so with some relief . |
| 7 | They walked briskly to the mortuary , and were told to go into Burney 's inner sanctum . |
| 8 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 9 | The other forwards were told to go fast , like ‘ flying columns ’ , round the slow , old-style defences and if possible to make for goal direct . |
| 10 | I was told to go to the telephone . |
| 11 | Bentwich was told to go home and persuade his own government to do more . |
| 12 | He was told to go up to Cambridge , despite a shortfall of £60 in his funds , and that his college would do its utmost to ensure that he could carry on with his studies . |
| 13 | I definitely think we 've found a niche , not just in a business sense , but in the sense of providing a much needed service to dog owners , and I think we all need some helpful service nowadays , rather than being told to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 14 | Thatcher was four votes short of outright victory ; she wanted to fight on , but was told to go by her cabinet ( the same loyal troupe that now surrounds Major ) . |
| 15 | They are being told to go out and search for it . |
| 16 | The nearest I 've come to being arrested in the line of duty was when I was told to go out onto the streets , microphone in hand , and smile at people . |
| 17 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 18 | Three more girls will be told to go this morning . |
| 19 | It seems as if the reason that IBM UK Ltd could n't get any cash from its parent to bail it out at the end of last year and reportedly was told to go factor its receivables , is that IBM Corp was too busy bailing out IBM Deutschland GmbH . |
| 20 | It seems as if the reason that IBM UK Ltd could n't get any cash from its parent to bail it out at the end of last year and reportedly was told to go factor its receivables , is that IBM Corp was too busy bailing out IBM Deutschland GmbH . |
| 21 | Mr Clinton 's February budget foreshadowed $16.4 billion of unspecified savings over five years , and the Treasury department was told to go off and find them . |
| 22 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |
| 23 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 24 | I was then told to go away and write down my entire life history on three sheets of blank paper . |
| 25 | Ambassador Robert White was told to go home , and the women chanted , " White is red " and " send White to Cuba " . |
| 26 | And I think that 's what a lot of problem with condemned by the G P is is they 're not able to articulate the unhappiness that 's coming from the eating disorder , so they 're told to go away and put on a couple of pounds and because they have n't expressed that feeling the G P ca n't or is n't thinking enough to try and and poke into it a little bit more . |
| 27 | They were told to go off and play . |
| 28 | I was told to go off to work . |
| 29 | In the afternoon , she was politely told to go out until tea-time . |
| 30 | I wanted my mum or Ian , but my mum was at home and Ian had been told to go into the waiting room . |