Example sentences of "[noun sg] be told [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 2 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 3 | More than 70 delegates at the Edinburgh conference were told about the dumping of unsafe products on emerging eastern European democracies . |
| 4 | In the Board 's view it is not open to the plaintiff on these pleadings to allege that Mr. Brant would have agreed to the plaintiff being told of the offer for Vertigo . |
| 5 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 6 | The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly . |
| 7 | How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them . |
| 8 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 9 | An interim order ( and thus its freezing effect ) lasts until 28 days after the court is told of the report of the creditors ' meeting referred to below . |
| 10 | The distance is told by the rate of the dance ; the direction by the angle of the centre part of the dance , during which the dancer wags her abdomen : the angle of this part of the dance relative to the vertical is the angle of the food source relative to the sun . |
| 11 | Then he took two detectives to the Queenshill Bridge over the river Severn , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on the third day of the trial . |
| 12 | The court was told of the events of 15 and 16 February ; that Mr. Bell had denied being in breach of his bail conditions and that the court on Friday , 16 February had remanded Mr. Bell in custody without hearing any evidence . |
| 13 | This gentleman was told of the deplorable state of the lady and the even worse state of her husband , and he recommended the couple to Samuel Young . |
| 14 | Regional organiser at the General and Municipal Boilermakers ' Union Derek Cattell said : ‘ The workforce were told of the closure by managing director Tony Jowett . |
| 15 | 1 to 2 pm : The rest of the Cabinet is told of the impending statement . |
| 16 | The tale is told with the utmost economy , as if nothing unusual was taking place . |
| 17 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 18 | The story of the Lord 's Passion was told in the songs Jesus Road a Donkey into Town , Get out of God 's House , Is n't it wonderful Eating with Jesus , Tell us Jesus , and the tumultuous He is Risen , in a magnificent and moving performance . |
| 19 | Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other . |
| 20 | But his daughter was told by the assistant , ‘ We do n't accept pensioners . |
| 21 | The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred . |
| 22 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 23 | A classic story is told about the unveiling of a vast poster showing a dish piled high with baked beans . |
| 24 | The story is told through the eyes of the crews who man the engines and it is an interesting way of conducting you over one of Britain 's most interesting and picturesque routes . |
| 25 | She would have especially wanted to know more of her own mother , whose story is told in the final chapters and who died in 1903 of peritonitis when the author was 10 days old . |
| 26 | The difference with this book is that the story is told from the groundcrew 's side of things . |
| 27 | In such stories as Shirley Hughes ' Up and up and Raymond Briggs ' The snowman the story is told by the pictures , unsupported by text . |
| 28 | At a meeting at the end of 1989 between Navan Resources and the islanders , the company were told by the islanders that they did not want gold mining . |
| 29 | History is told throughout the town — Greek amphitheatre , Roman arcading and a ruinous odeon , moorish detailing on the lintels of palazzi , medieval castles and baroque churches . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |