Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 2 | But now she 's been told she ca n't . |
| 3 | It 's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution . |
| 4 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 5 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |
| 6 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 7 | He 's willing to risk it , and he 's been told the risk . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise he 's been told that he wo n't even be able to sell his liver for cat food . |
| 9 | Well I think the chairman of the committee s is aware , because he 's been , he 's been told . |
| 10 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 11 | He 's been told it could be next week , but he wo n't believe it until he wakes up after his operation , in one of those six intensive care beds.Even then , he 'll still be waiting . |
| 12 | After almost fifty years with Nuffield Press in Oxford , the last five under the ownership of Robert Maxwell , he 's been told he wo n't see anything of his pension fund totalling around thirty-eight thousand pounds … |
| 13 | He 's been told he and twenty nine other senior council officers will have to pay back golden handshake payments made to streamline the council 's management . |
| 14 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 15 | He 's been told he can do it legally only if he takes his uniform off first . |
| 16 | Now he 's been told to stop doing a good turn for pensioners and others who otherwise have to wait minutes for a gap in the traffic . |
| 17 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |
| 18 | Anthony Gilberthorpe was originally awarded damages of more than sixty thousand pounds , but now that 's been overturned and he 's been told he must pay all the costs . |
| 19 | Now he 's been told it 's not a fungus , it 's eczema . |
| 20 | yes , but you talked , listened to a parson on telly , he 's convinced what he 's saying true , yet it 's only what he 's been told in it ? |
| 21 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
| 22 | The judge then , bearing in mind , all that he knows , and all that he 's been told about the guilty person , proceeds to pass sentence . |