Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 2 | She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British . |
| 3 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 4 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 5 | On the previous evening she had been told by her MP , Sir Ralph Grunte , that she reminded him of ‘ the young Alma Cogan ’ , but she had no idea who Alma Cogan was . |
| 6 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |
| 7 | Apparently after weeks of anguish he had been told his job was safe . |
| 8 | This morning she had been told that she was ill-mannered ; now it seemed she was not fit to be a lady ! |
| 9 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 10 | Ari sat across from the man she 'd been told was her father , appraising him with a critical eye . |
| 11 | In the past they had been told that there was no market for it , but we decided to supply them . |
| 12 | Sadly though , when the peace came it was not so glorious , and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 gave the Italians little of the territory they had been told to expect in whispered conversation in secret corridors while the war was in progress . |
| 13 | He 'd arrived just after Vespers to collect the message he had been told would be waiting for him . |
| 14 | He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid . |
| 15 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 16 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 17 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 18 | When preparing for their expedition they had been told that the magnetic compass was useless on such mountains as these , for the rocks were loaded with iron . |
| 19 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 20 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 21 | The street he had been told to walk down was narrow , dirty and empty . |