Example sentences of "they have [adv] [been] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 2 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
| 3 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 4 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 5 | The parents say they 've not been told anything official by the Faithful Foundation . |
| 6 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 7 | On television last night there was some waffling about nothing and complaining they had n't been told . |
| 8 | She had coaxed , cajoled and bribed the delivery boys to do what they had already been told to do — carry it to the relevant floor of the hotel . |
| 9 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 10 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 11 | She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself . |
| 12 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 13 | Most local hoteliers and guesthouse owners , who said they had not been told of this , left before the vote was taken . |
| 14 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 15 | They have also been told that Sheffield United want a record busting £4m for Brian Deane , but Forest could give Standard Liege striker Shalom Tikva his big chance . |
| 16 | I gather that they have also been told not to worry patients by explaining the real reasons for any consequent delay in treatment . |
| 17 | What they have n't been told is that you actually have to make a claim for benefit . |
| 18 | Still others throw themselves on the mercy of God without being able to name the name of Christ because they have never been told about him . |