Example sentences of "[vb base] been tell [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been told the players pray five times a day — even if it means interrupting training ! |
| 3 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 4 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
| 5 | I 've been told the boats ca n't go over , but when you 're out there , you wonder . |
| 6 | Prisoners who shared a cell with an alleged murderer have been telling a jury about threats made against a police informer whose body was later found in a lake . |
| 7 | Thames Valley police officers have been telling the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke they need more people and resources to do the job . |
| 8 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 9 | Jail chiefs have been told a prisoner snatched the keys from a warder who fell asleep on duty . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been told the forms are private and confidential , but by the time you finish filling them in , your whole life is there for someone to see . ’ |
| 11 | Businessman John Foy and his wife Sally have been told the Pounds 250,000 house must go because it flouts planning regulations . |
| 12 | Employees at the company 's plants in Chester and Filton , Bristol , have been told the redundancies will come early next year . |
| 13 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |