Example sentences of "[was/were] tell [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates at Aylesbury were told of an incident last year involving horse called Max which was owned by Mr Hill and ridden by his wife Trelawny . |
| 2 | A jury at Bristol crown court was told of an insurance policy paying six thousands pounds a year until their children grew up . |
| 3 | In fact , I was told of an occasion when a power-pole had to be replaced because a woodpecker had dug a hole ‘ you could hide a beer can in ’ , as my informant said ! |
| 4 | As an illustration of how it can occur , the field-worker was told of an incident in which a driver was asked to stop for failing to wear a seat-belt , upon which he sped off , necessitating a car chase , which eventually ended with two cars being wrecked and a policeman injured . |
| 5 | Corinne Dufka said : ‘ At Dikfer hospital I was told by an official there that they had admitted 25 wounded people , most of them with gunshot wounds . ’ |
| 6 | Corinne Dufka said : ‘ At Dikfer hospital I was told by an official there that they had admitted 25 wounded people , most of them with gunshot wounds . ’ |
| 7 | One young man said he was told in an interview at the company 's Middlesbrough office : ‘ Be prepared to sit in someone 's house for as long as it takes . |