Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb base] been tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 2 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
| 3 | I know I 'm too thin , I do n't like what I look like and I 've been told if I lose any more weight I 'll have to give up work and be admitted to hospital . |
| 4 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 5 | It was taken off me at Widnes , with Jonathan Davies doing most of the tactical kicking , and I 've been told it cost me a Great Britain tour chance . |
| 6 | My youngest daughter is four and I 've been told she 's got worms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 10 | I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ . |
| 11 | And I have been told that as a baby I conformed to this pattern , in contrast to my first sister who was ‘ delicate ’ and my second sister who was ‘ placid ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 14 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 15 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 16 | And we 've been told that we 'll only get between a nought and one point five percent increase at the most . |
| 17 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 18 | Erm , and they 've been told that we might not be making any appointment at all ? |
| 19 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 20 | Erm the only thing is what does happen occasionally is somebody comes from the D S S offices and they 've been told , I need a B one . |
| 21 | THE Ipswich Witches speedway team are currently tracking under strength sides — and they have been told it is Ipswich Town FC who are partly to blame . |