Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be tell [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 2 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 3 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 4 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 5 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |
| 6 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 7 | He had been told a little of his history , and knew that there would be more explanations at the end of this journey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr MacArthur said : ‘ The pilot said he had been told the weather was bad on Mull and that he might fly on to Tiree . |
| 11 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 12 | ‘ Lance-Corporal Trumper , ’ said Tommy in disbelief after he had been told the news . |
| 13 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 14 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 15 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |