Example sentences of "told [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of the rise and fall of this great coal port and of the fortunes of the people who lived and worked here is told through a dramatic interpretation set in a simulated dockland environment . |
| 2 | Each image is a complete story often told through a dense , receding picture space . |
| 3 | A horse that is empathic with another knows how the other feels without it being told through the usual senses of sight , hearing , touch , and smell . |
| 4 | The story is told through the eyes of the crews who man the engines and it is an interesting way of conducting you over one of Britain 's most interesting and picturesque routes . |
| 5 | Iranian Pourfarrokh created Vertex in response to TV news reports on the Gulf War … the bursting forth of everything we feel in a world of unfulfilled dreams … dreams which are as varied as the people who dream them … a poem told through the bodies of the poets : the dancers . |
| 6 | When we arrived at King 's Cross I was told for the sake of reality I must find my own way to the Savoy Hotel , although the film crew would be close by in case of emergency . |
| 7 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 8 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 9 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 10 | The story of Dod , the Doric-speaking protagonist , and his encounters with Gaels and other inhabitants of the oil platform he works on , will be told for the first time on Saturday , 20 February , at Broadford . |
| 11 | In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’ |
| 12 | Contrary to what you are told as a novice , it does in fact pay to let your backside drop into a sitting position — this allows even the shortest sailors to lean back in a relaxed position using their weight as opposed to relying only on arm strength |
| 13 | Meetings were held in secret — the boy with the bus fare or the motor-bike waiting at the end of the lane — and elaborate lies told as a cover-up until my parents got wise to what was going on . |
| 14 | Always told as a comic story . |
| 15 | It was a well-known story among City men and was often told as an example of what used to happen in the bad old days of ten years ago — and what , by implication , could never happen now . |
| 16 | John Reilly , 47 , took three plastic sacks from the driveway of Sunday Times managing editor Roger Eglin 's home in Teddington , west London , nearby Isleworth Crown Court was told during a two-day trial . |
| 17 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 18 | ‘ I was n't even told about the wedding because he was largely under pressure , in a corner d' you see . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 21 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 22 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 23 | Possibly world war III was brewing up in Nicaragua — he mentioned that to North , though North doubted it , thought the Russians would never fight for the place — and here was he , O'Boyle , being told about the innermost strategic details . |
| 24 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 25 | The police were also told about the yacht Ouvéa and its four-man French crew and on 15 July officers flew to Norfolk Island to interrogate them , although Maniguet had left the island for Australia that morning . |
| 26 | How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them . |
| 27 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And when Cheryl 's holiday was over and her Brownie Pack met again , the Pack were told about the rescue of the pony by semaphore , and agreed that Cheryl had passed her Semaphore Challenge with flying colours . |
| 30 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |