Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] 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 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 8 | I have been told by Social Security would let me er excuse me talking to me . |
| 9 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 15 | 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 . |