Example sentences of "told at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 2 | More rarely , such stories are told at other times to demonstrate the reverse : that policemen and women are human beings and are affected by emotionally demanding work . |
| 3 | We was told at school not to do that . |
| 4 | They have even more of a right to know if they are not being told at home . |
| 5 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 6 | Soft-hearted Mrs Garwood recalled being told at Dallas airport that food procured for the contras was simply rotting in the warehouses , just as the food sent to Ethiopia in the famine had never reached the starving . |
| 7 | The sweeper 's story reminded me of a tale told at Ross Carbery , County Cork . |
| 8 | Frank Sinatra was told at the weekend that the four pasta sauces named after him are being withdrawn . |
| 9 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 10 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ Buckmaster — after due consultation with the PM I was told at Downing Street to issue a discreet alert . ’ |
| 12 | How many of us , 1 wonder , were told at school to ‘ stop daydreaming ’ . |
| 13 | If you want one , we can do it at the same time as the valuation , at a reduced fee , but we must be told at the outset . |
| 14 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 15 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 16 | She would tell Felicity later on , for the Three Musketeers had no secrets from one another ; but Gay must be told at once . |
| 17 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 18 | With the nervous worry comes the loneliness : ‘ The house is quiet as the grave ’ , and the fear of the future : ‘ Though we have registered we are told at the American consulate it may last [ take ] years until we get the possibility of emigrating , the quota being overcharged . ’ |
| 19 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 20 | Coleridge fainted when told at a reception in Malta , and tried to get leave to return . |
| 21 | Officers were told at first that there were two different tapes in existence . |
| 22 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 23 | At times rambling incoherently ( one observer in court thought him demented ) Mathews repeated all the lies he had told at the original trial and added several more . |
| 24 | Cheryl Wragg , 34 , was airlifted 150 miles for the operation , just weeks after 10-year-old Adele 's appeal , only to be told at the last minute the lungs were unsuitable . |
| 25 | JAMES Bulger did not die in vain , we were told at his funeral this week . |
| 26 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 27 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 28 | The splash read : THE LIARS — WHOPPERS ASIANS TOLD AT HEATHROW . |
| 29 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 30 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |