Example sentences of "be told [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 2 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 3 | Of course , even the most empirical study is informed by a problematic — if only at the level of choice of what is significant , and this study is a good deal less innocent than that , but the story will be told first . |
| 4 | One of them , Christina Carter , eight , was due to be told last night that her 15-year-old sister , Danielle , was one of the three killed in the explosion . |
| 5 | The brutal contract killing of Shirley Rendell in 1983 is to be told next month in Deadly Obsession , part of ITV 's Crime Story series . |
| 6 | ‘ England 's army of thugs were told last night : ‘ cause any aggro and we 'll jail you and throw away the key ’ ’ it was reported yesterday in The One That Most Of Them Read . |
| 7 | PLANS for a £1.6 billion Sizewell C nuclear power station have been fully developed and are ‘ on hold ’ pending the outcome of the Government 's energy review , local community leaders were told last night . |
| 8 | We were told last night : ‘ The Civil List will be reduced in both size and the number of people . |
| 9 | They were told last night that their policies are still valid . |
| 10 | Parents were told last night that their children should not come to school due to the appalling standard of cleanliness resulting from the employment of contract cleaners . |
| 11 | Former Detective Superintendent George who was in charge of the Birmingham pub bombings investigation , Detective Constable Terence and Detective Sergeant Colin were told last week of the judge 's view they could n't get a fair trial . |
| 12 | At the police station , she said , she was told first that she would be charged with assault and then that she would be charged with disorderly behaviour . |
| 13 | ALL scientific evidence has been dropped from the case against the Birmingham Six , the Court of Appeal in London was told last week . |
| 14 | The NT/ Community Outlook Primary Healthcare Conference was told last week that potential nurse prescribers will come under the same pressure as doctors from an industry that spends £200 million a year promoting its products . |
| 15 | The waters around the Sullom Voe oil terminal are cleaner than the Forth and many other British estuaries , a conference on environmental monitoring was told last month . |
| 16 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 17 | But the council 's recreation committee was told last night that the council would have to pay £1,000 , £600 for prize money and £400 as a management fee , and they said it was too much . |
| 18 | Milk Race organisers had asked Richmondshire District Council if it would support a sprint section through the town , but the recreation committee was told last night it would have to pay £1,000 £600 for prize money and £400 as a management fee . |