Example sentences of "told the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has now told the same story ‘ straight ’ — or comparatively straight . |
| 2 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 3 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 4 | Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year . |
| 5 | New pay recommendations are due in the new year and , although Mr Clarke has told the review body that there must be pay restraint , ministers appear likely to press for the award to be met . |
| 6 | Mr Kaufman called in his support the view of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the German foreign minister , who he said had told the review group in Bonn that ‘ agreements are better than unilateral moves because they can be verified and can not be reversed ’ . |
| 7 | Prior to the match , Evert had told the Australian captain , Wendy Turnbull , to tell her No. 1 player , Anne Minter , ‘ that if she can beat me as she did in Toronto ( in August ) , then she can beat Manuela Maleeva ’ . |
| 8 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 9 | He has already been told the prize money will be forwarded to his association . |
| 10 | Her doctor had told the jury she was not on the pill and knew of no tests . |
| 11 | He has told the jury that he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts , who was annoyed by the company 's failure to ‘ pay out ’ on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 12 | The jury was told the men were to be paid £1,000 each with £500 expenses by Mr Brown 's wife to kill him . |
| 13 | If they are told the Home Office is ‘ minded to refuse ’ asylum they can apply for a judicial review . |
| 14 | The penalty was imposed primarily as a result of evidence provided by the victim and in spite of the tenor of the earlier summing-up by the judge who had told the jury that it was dangerous to convict on the evidence of an alleged victim alone . |
| 15 | Lord Aldington , ex-chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , has told the jury he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts who was annoyed by the company 's failure to pay out on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 16 | When Sotheby 's told the owner that both pieces would have to be withdrawn from sale , he decided to withdraw his collection . |
| 17 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 18 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 19 | We are told the story of a man ( unidentified , so for convenience I shall refer to him as X ) who , though ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ had become interested in another younger man on the occasion of finding himself in a triangular relationship with him and his ( i.e. the younger man 's ) fiancée at a dinner party . |
| 20 | The king is reported as having told the clergy that they must reproach the practice ‘ vehemently and bitterly ’ , and if this did not succeed , he would take further measures . |
| 21 | Canada had already told the US embassy in Ottawa about the results of the London talks , and in February 1944 sent the State Department a draft 23-page convention for use in the proposed international conference . |
| 22 | An episode of the highly successful TV comedy The Likely Lads was based entirely on the two working-class Geordie protagonists not being told the result of a recorded game . |
| 23 | After his last visit , he had gone to her and begged to be told the truth . |
| 24 | To the suggestion that she had n't told the truth some Tory MPs yelled ‘ Rubbish ! ’ . |
| 25 | The authority has already told the hospital 's management to take no action . |
| 26 | The Inland Revenue had told the SE that Barlow Clowes ' advertising literature appeared misleading about the tax implications of investing in certain funds . |
| 27 | He criticised the system of screening and the appeals tribunal for refugees due to be sent back , saying they were forbidden to be present , allowed no legal representation , and were not told the reasons for decisions . |
| 28 | The Foreign Secretary had told the Commons that 42,000 people left the colony this year , and 55,000 are expected to leave next year . |
| 29 | Jon Webb , the Bristol full-back , has told the England manager Geoff Cooke that he still wants to play international rugby . |
| 30 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |