Example sentences of "[pron] was tell by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 2 | This , I was told by the teacher who tracked up in his car , was cross-country running . |
| 3 | I was told by the team management not to make any statements to the media about the relay incident at the training track , and I stuck by that . |
| 4 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 5 | At school I was told by the matron that I would die if I continued to lose weight . |
| 6 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 7 | However , only last year in discussions on the level of restructuring grants , I was told by the then Under-Secretary of State that that was ’ linked to expected redundancies . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I was told by the parents that the baby was still in the house . |
| 9 | I was told by the police in the police station . ’ |
| 10 | And I was tel telling , I did n't realize that erm not getting a fa erm a squint patched was erm as dangerous as it is , as , I was told by the ophthalamagist that she could , he could lose his eyesight if he had n't erm did n't get his eye patched because they will stop using the eye , and the eyesight would go . |
| 11 | She was told by the Polytechnics Central Admissions System , PCAS , that she would breach her contract with them if she joined the Universities Central Council on Admissions , UCCA . |
| 12 | She was told by the social workers not to worry , they 'd look after her . |
| 13 | She was told by the Chief Constable of the district ( who was accompanied by the Inspector who became the respondent in the appeal ) that a meeting could not be held on the spot , but could be held some 175 yards distant , around the corner . |
| 14 | And then the silly little girl went and believed the glib tales she was told by the great Australian male , did n't she ? |
| 15 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 16 | From this cave cult sprang the peculiar , complicated , mixed-origin myth of the birth of Zeus Cretagenes , ‘ Cretan-born Zeus ’ , as it was told by the Greeks in the fifth century BC . |
| 17 | It was , therefore , open to misrepresentation and special pleading , to accepting what it was told by the party that secured or took the initiative . |
| 18 | Senator Jesse Helms , the arch-conservative North Carolinian Republican , says he was told by the CIA , as well as sources within Panama , that the rebels did offer to surrender General Noriega to the US . |
| 19 | From what he was told by the Queen , by his unofficial advisers like the Dean of Westminster , and from his own conviction , Macmillan was sure that he must recommend Ramsey to the Queen . |
| 20 | Chris , 42 , of Longsight , Manchester , said he was told by the driver the half gallon tin might spill . |
| 21 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 22 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 23 | This application was refused , but he was told by the CAA that there was an opening on the route if he wished to reapply for a licence . |
| 24 | He was told by the police to desist , but did not do so , and when arrested , used considerable force to resist . |
| 25 | In Barker v. Bell ( 1971 C.A. ) the private purchaser of a motor car believed what he was told by the vendor — namely that the latter had bought the car under a hire purchase agreement from B finance company . |
| 26 | PHILLIP McCallen received a body blow shortly before today 's Coca Cola North West 200 when he was told by the clerk of the course Billy Nutt that he would have to start from the back of the grid in the superbike race . |
| 27 | Well on the basis of what was told by the guy she went to see at who was the key account manager |