Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] tell that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I am told that that is the earliest thing at all . |
| 2 | And I am told that another Metro got similar treatment in Newtownards on that Friday evening . |
| 3 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 4 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 5 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 6 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 7 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 8 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 9 | You are told that all these ritual practices have now come to an end , for the coming of Jesus makes all ceremonial redundant . |
| 10 | You are told that this is the book in which Tolkien never uses the word ‘ the ’ . |
| 11 | You 're told that that particular function is equal to that . |
| 12 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 13 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 14 | Then , we are told that this constant presence of God guiding and helping his people has been completed . |
| 15 | We are told that these last four words are Rimbaud 's and the Surrealist André Breton 's , and that in 1968 they were a slogan of the protesting Sorbonne students . |
| 16 | That is to say that both bitmap and vector graphics are supported a la Corel 3 , but a lot faster ( and we 're told that this being a Beta version , there 's a fair amount of debugging code in the software that will slow it down . |
| 17 | I mean we 're told that these erm types of development are few and far between . |
| 18 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 19 | We were told that this was the result of Gestapo torture . |
| 20 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 21 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |
| 22 | They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate . |
| 23 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 24 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 25 | He was told that such a reference might cause embarrassment to some of the pupils . |
| 26 | Mr Torode says he was told that those supporting the Government 's views on blasphemy were excluded . |