Example sentences of "have [been] tell the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 2 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 3 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 4 | The emergence of an independent Macedonia on Greece 's northern border was indeed an event that justified a Greek response , but the response should not have been to tell the new country it could not use the name ‘ Macedonia ’ ( see box ) . |
| 5 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 6 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 7 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 8 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 9 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 10 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 13 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 14 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 15 | Hard-up royal retainers , who earn around £8,500 a year , have been told the free electricity used in their grace and favour homes will be taxed in a new crackdown . |