Example sentences of "have [been] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 2 | ‘ After all , it could never have been told in English . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 4 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 5 | We might have been told . |
| 6 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 7 | With a planned hospital stay you will have been told to prepare for the operation as best as you can , perhaps by losing some weight , discontinuing any medication that you may be taking , or attempting to stop smoking . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no reason why I should have been told , ’ he said . |
| 9 | How much would Mrs Tremayne have been told ? |
| 10 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 11 | There was a journalist , too — or maybe Antonio Francesca Pigafetta was a Venetian spy , since he came from Venice , was an acquaintance of the Doge and could well have been told to keep a wary eye on Spanish imperial ambitions in the East . |
| 12 | He 'll have been told , for sure , that his folks are gone , and the place is let . ’ |
| 13 | They would have been told , all of them , before they left Washington that he was a friend of Harry Lawrence . |
| 14 | You will have been told that 93% — or whatever — of British women are on a diet at any one time , but that , as a nation , we are still getting fatter . |
| 15 | Daniel Thwaites could find himself in HSE trouble for allowing unsafe practices in his competition — the gentleman should have been told to wear a hairnet . |
| 16 | The myth of Osiris must have been told and retold to eager audiences over many centuries and in many different ways . |
| 17 | But would the story have been told in quite the same way if I had been black , or a woman , or nearer their own age and social background ? |
| 18 | Indeed would it have been told at all ? |
| 19 | One of the reasons for such ambiguity is that the members of the legislature in enacting the statutory provision may have been told what result those words are intended to achieve . |
| 20 | I assumed you were the type of patient who would have been told … ’ |
| 21 | After all , in the war Barry would have been told that he was fighting to uphold the rights of small nations , so what could be more logical than that he should now fight for the rights of his own country , Ireland , a small nation if ever there was one ! |
| 22 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 23 | He should have been told . |
| 24 | ‘ But I should have been told of your arrival , ’ the Baron went on . |
| 25 | Bertha would have been sent the message that she could go hopping sideways — while she herself would have been told to get down the road and out of his sight . |
| 26 | ‘ They might have been told to . ’ |
| 27 | The case of the plaintiff is that he should still have been told and advised about the er availability of this provision , particularly when he was clearly er fearful of the financial consequences to him of completing this and when he was expressing those fears forcefully er to Mr . |
| 28 | I 'm not actually sure that either er was mentioned erm , what they would have been told er was that there was an escaped prisoner there er who was armed and our intention was to arrest him . |
| 29 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 30 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |