Example sentences of "[verb] be told [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A jury has been told that a prisoner who threw hot oil at prison officers during a disturbance at a jail was serving a life sentence for killing a policeman . |
| 2 | A murder trial jury has been told that a teenager who was left in charge of a baby girl for a few minutes killed the child by picking her up and smashing her head against a wall . |
| 3 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 4 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |
| 5 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
| 6 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 7 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 8 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 9 | During a two-day hearing , they had been told that a town centre disturbance had broken out after the quarter-final Scottish Junior Cup match between Beith and Vale of Leven on 28 March last year . |
| 10 | Landsbergis , meeting Gorbachev in Moscow at the latter 's request on June 26 , had been told that a moratorium would signal a return by Lithuania to its pre-March 11 status , and Landsbergis claimed that this meant that negotiations would formally be between the Soviet Union and one of its constituent republics . |
| 11 | I have been told that a landowner can allow caravans to park on his land for up to 28 days per year without having to obtain planning consent . |
| 12 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 13 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park . |
| 14 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her This report from Chris Throup . |
| 15 | An inquest 's been told that a husband was seen in Great Yarmouth the day AFTER his wife and two children were killed at their Gloucestershire home . |