Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] tell [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
2 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
7 | 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 ) . |