Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been told [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 2 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 3 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 4 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 5 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 6 | I have been told by Social Security would let me er excuse me talking to me . |
| 7 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 8 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 9 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 10 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 11 | The growth of money management education committees and associations within local education authorities is evidence of this ; we have been told of encouraging credit education initiatives in the North West , North East , South Wales and Scotland and no doubt there are other similar examples elsewhere . |
| 12 | Jim Rodgers , who represents the Victoria Ward in east Belfast but works on the Shankill , said : ‘ We have been told by reliable police sources that the assistant Chief Constable for Belfast had a security briefing with his divisional commander to increase patrols in loyalist areas . |
| 13 | His father Phillip , of Erndhura , Farnascullogue , Lisnaskea , said he had been told by other students that lifts frequently broke down and students often clambered out of them . |