Example sentences of "tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’ |
| 2 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 3 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 4 | If you are not told of the risk that you run , you might be able to complain of an unfair dismissal if you are sacked following a recurrence of the same conduct . |
| 5 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
| 6 | All the drama of this tragedy is told in a book that is always interesting , and which is exceptionally well illustrated . |
| 7 | And the stories are told in a language that fits , with plenty of Kirkby slang among the four-letter words . |
| 8 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 9 | He knew from the stories he had been told in the chapel that many people in days of old had seen God or one of God 's angels . |
| 10 | We 're told in the report that small firms with less than twenty people have a fatal and major accident rate forty percent higher than firms employing over a thousand . |
| 11 | Included in the recommendations is for a two day training course , costing fifty thousand for two thousand places it 's excellent except we 're told in the report that we ca n't get people on courses however good they is es especially among , er , small companies . |
| 12 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 13 | I would say from the point where I was told on the radio that the officers were entering the premises to the point where I was told everybody was secured , could not be more than four five minutes . |
| 14 | Frank Sinatra was told at the weekend that the four pasta sauces named after him are being withdrawn . |
| 15 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 16 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 17 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 18 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 19 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 20 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 21 | In a moment of clarity , just before her eleven a.m. medication on Friday , a bewildered Elinor threatened to leave and was told by a nurse that this was not possible without the prior permission of the matron . |
| 22 | ‘ I was told by a Minister that lives in the SAS were expendable . |
| 23 | A YOUTH who was told by a judge that his sex attack on a nine-year-old girl was ‘ like a breath of fresh air ’ walked free yesterday . |
| 24 | I have been told by a friend that this is an early AA key , and that it is quite valuable . |
| 25 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 26 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 27 | We were told by a doctor that the colony had been weakened by inbreeding , but they all looked robust to me , in a puddingy , German sort of way . |
| 28 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
| 29 | Kurt Koch tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who was told by a palmist that she would die in her thirtieth year . |
| 30 | Natasha , who speaks very little English , has been told by an interpreter that she is in England for a holiday and may one day return to Sarajevo . |