Example sentences of "[been] tell about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 2 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 3 | The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund : |
| 4 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 5 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 6 | No solicitor can sue for fees unless the client has been told about the remuneration certificate procedure . |
| 7 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 8 | All the soldiers who served in Bosnia have been told about the possibility of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the atrocities they have seen . |
| 9 | Ghislain Pascal of Survival International says the Amerindians who live in the area have not been told about the logging plans and deplores the fact that " Samling — which has devastated the lands of the Dayak peoples in Sarawak — should ever be able to negotiate a deal without social and environmental impact assessment being carried out . " |
| 10 | Nobody appeared to have been told about the need for translation , and there was no copy of the interpreter 's oath in the courtroom . |
| 11 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 12 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 13 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |
| 14 | At a meeting in the Kremlin last Saturday , General Vladimir Kryuchkov , head of the KGB and one of the newest members of the politburo , implicitly admitted the lies that had been told about the role of the secret police in Stalin 's repression . |