Example sentences of "[noun] be told [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 2 | In January 1953 the universities and the WEA were told of the Minister 's intention to cut grant-aid towards their adult education work by 10% for the educational year beginning the following August . |
| 3 | Scott was told of the effect of Ruskin 's intervention over Freeman 's letter in The Times by George Dasent , the assistant editor , which coupled with the tone of the letter to Dallas ensured that by late 1859 there was a complete breach between Scott and Ruskin . |
| 4 | The jokes told about the Irish in England are told about the Belgians in France . |
| 5 | THE right to roam should be enshrined in Swedish-style legislation , Scottish ramblers were told at the weekend . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | More than 70 delegates at the Edinburgh conference were told about the dumping of unsafe products on emerging eastern European democracies . |
| 8 | In the Board 's view it is not open to the plaintiff on these pleadings to allege that Mr. Brant would have agreed to the plaintiff being told of the offer for Vertigo . |
| 9 | It is understood that early this year both local gardai and Catholic Church officials were told of the allegations ; the health board became involved and the priest received counselling . |
| 10 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 11 | The bank draft was er erm and it appeared that at that stage Mr was told by the er by Mr that the landlord 's consent to the assignment of this lease erm , had still not be obtained . |
| 12 | The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly . |
| 13 | How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them . |
| 14 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 15 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 16 | The original exhibition 's UK tour , planned for January , was abandoned when the organisers were told by the DTI that a UN embargo suspended cultural exchanges and visits between UN nations and Serbia or Montenegro . |
| 17 | And I remember an earlier epoch when the geologists were told by the physicists , including the great Lord Kelvin himself , that they were foolish to postulate so many millions of years for earth history , when it could easily be calculated from classic physics that this was quite impossible . |
| 18 | An interim order ( and thus its freezing effect ) lasts until 28 days after the court is told of the report of the creditors ' meeting referred to below . |
| 19 | The distance is told by the rate of the dance ; the direction by the angle of the centre part of the dance , during which the dancer wags her abdomen : the angle of this part of the dance relative to the vertical is the angle of the food source relative to the sun . |
| 20 | Then he took two detectives to the Queenshill Bridge over the river Severn , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on the third day of the trial . |
| 21 | The court was told of the events of 15 and 16 February ; that Mr. Bell had denied being in breach of his bail conditions and that the court on Friday , 16 February had remanded Mr. Bell in custody without hearing any evidence . |
| 22 | This gentleman was told of the deplorable state of the lady and the even worse state of her husband , and he recommended the couple to Samuel Young . |
| 23 | Here too are the baths where the crippled are immersed , and a line of taps providing water from the source that Bernadette was told by the Virgin to drink from . |
| 24 | That 's what Lee was told by the doctor |
| 25 | Many romantic tales are told of the king 's subsequent wanderings . |
| 26 | Staff were told about the job cuts last night . |
| 27 | Regional organiser at the General and Municipal Boilermakers ' Union Derek Cattell said : ‘ The workforce were told of the closure by managing director Tony Jowett . |
| 28 | 1 to 2 pm : The rest of the Cabinet is told of the impending statement . |
| 29 | The tale is told with the utmost economy , as if nothing unusual was taking place . |
| 30 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |