Example sentences of "[was/were] told [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 2 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 3 | Shareholders were told at the Bournemouth-based group 's annual meeting yesterday that January reservations were 9.4 per cent up on last year 's and that this month , a 41-unit development was sold to a housing association . |
| 4 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 5 | Michael 's sister Susan Priestley , 39 , said last night : ‘ We were told after the last appeal that this one was n't likely to succeed but we live in hope . ’ |
| 6 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |
| 7 | Mr Endara was told of the planned attack , and asked for his support , which he apparently granted , saying that he was ready to become the new leader if the US could topple the Noriega regime . |
| 8 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |
| 9 | This gentleman was told of the deplorable state of the lady and the even worse state of her husband , and he recommended the couple to Samuel Young . |
| 10 | In the morning Bicker was ill-tempered when he was told of the latest addition to the company , but Ratagan was pleased . |
| 11 | Then he took two detectives to the Queenshill Bridge over the river Severn , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on the third day of the trial . |
| 12 | The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ . |
| 13 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 14 | However , only last year in discussions on the level of restructuring grants , I was told by the then Under-Secretary of State that that was ’ linked to expected redundancies . |
| 15 | As the apostle John was told by the third angel who described the pressure of crises on faith , during his vision recounted in the book of Revelation , ‘ This is where the fortitude of God 's people has its place — in keeping God 's commands and remaining loyal to Jesus . ’ |
| 16 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |