Example sentences of "[be] told the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son , Li Yuan , had seen it all five years before , in those first few days after he had been told the secret of their world — the Great Lie upon which everything was built . |
| 2 | It was , however , reported by his personal staff that he did manage a smirk when he had been told the story of how his arch rival and competitor had been conned by his countrymen on a flag-flying visit to the auld counthrie . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the group which had been told the topic in advance performed best on the tests . |
| 4 | This is a wide er feeling and er a feeling of great anger er because only recently we have been told the truth of how this money was used . |
| 5 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 6 | The British people have not been told the truth about that . |
| 7 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 10 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 11 | Around 1,400 civilian workers at the training station for naval recruits will be told the news at 3.30pm , and a statement is expected in the Commons shortly after . |
| 12 | He deserved to be told the truth to his face . |
| 13 | They are like patients , who , suspecting that something is seriously wrong , steadfastly refuse to see a doctor in the hope that their troubles will clear up without the need to be told the truth about themselves or undergo painful treatment . |
| 14 | ‘ It does not necessarily mean that people should not be told the truth in school about what happens in reality . ’ |
| 15 | It is presidential policy that , wherever practicable , claimants should be told the outcome of their appeals on the day , but in all cases the claimant and adjudication officer must be sent a written record of the decision which includes a note of the evidence and submissions of the parties , a statement of the tribunals findings of fact and of the reasons for the decision . |
| 16 | Section 28(4) now says that the person must be told the reason for the arrest even if the facts are obvious . |
| 17 | Yes they all wanted clean rivers , but then when they were told the price of complying with the urban waste water directive , they were less keen . |
| 18 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 19 | Of Manner In They did the job in the way they were told the clause in the way they were told qualifies did . |
| 20 | Dooling and Lachman argue that the better performance of the subjects who were told the title of the passage reflects their greater ability to organise the words in the passage in memory . |
| 21 | ( A similar finding emerged in the Dooling and Lachman ( 1971 ) experiment discussed earlier where more words closely related to the theme of the passage were incorrectly recalled when subjects were told the title of the passage before being presented with it . ) |
| 22 | When , therefore , Ministers were told the truth for which they were wholly unprepared , they were dazed . |
| 23 | He was one of 100 youngsters who auditioned for the role of a boy who remains on stage all through , being told the story in flashback . |
| 24 | Ken Thwaites , who remembers being told the news in the asssembly hall at Normanby Primary School , recalls : ‘ The sad and important words were recognised , but what worried me more was would ‘ Boro 's FA Cup tie with Doncaster Rovers due that afternoon at Ayresome Park be postponed ? |
| 25 | They will not put up with simply being left without being told the reason for being apparently let down . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you think it is the wrong amount , you have a right of appeal , within three months of being told the amount to an independent Social Security Appeal Tribunal . |
| 28 | Some still claimed the Führer was not being told the truth by those around him , and received a far too rosy depiction of the situation . |
| 29 | She feared that decisions were being made behind her back , and that she was not being told the truth by that apologetic mouse of a doctor . |
| 30 | Mr Stephens said he was uncertain if he was being told the truth by the Government over any hidden agenda on privatisation . |