Example sentences of "we were tell [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again we were told about the unjustified actions of the British Army in shooting these men . |
| 2 | We spent a pleasant evening with Bob at the Springfield Hotel , the most northerly pub , in the British Isles where , amongst other anecdotes , we were told about the customs officer from Lerwick who was staying on Unst one very wet and stormy night , and awoke to find the roof of his bedroom had blown off . |
| 3 | Oh we Oh I suppose we were told about the war but being young and heedless we would not take it all in . |
| 4 | But oh we were told about the war and what was happening between the Germans and whatnot . |
| 5 | We 've been losing sleep with worry since we were told about the arrests . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 9 | We were told on the phone about her diabetes . |
| 10 | In the Victorian story , Eyes and No-Eyes , we were told of the difference between the characters . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | At that time we were told by the GA lobby that such a solution was not acceptable to GA flyers because of cost , weight/performance penalties , design difficulties and so on . |
| 13 | ‘ We were told by the teacher it was a mortal sin to touch them P of course we all did ! |
| 14 | Only a month ago we were told by the Engineering Council that technology lessons under the national curriculum were a ‘ farce ’ — and teachers did n't have a clue what they should be doing in the classroom . |
| 15 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 16 | One resident , John Morell , 30 , said : ‘ We were told by the council that we had to be out within 48 hours . |
| 17 | That 's what we were told in the branch , it lapses after twelve months |