Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been told by the local hospital that she can not have an appointment until June 1993 . |
| 2 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 3 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 4 | He is writing to his sister , narrating the extraordinary tale that he has been told by Frankenstein . |
| 5 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 6 | The judge then , bearing in mind , all that he knows , and all that he 's been told about the guilty person , proceeds to pass sentence . |
| 7 | yes , but you talked , listened to a parson on telly , he 's convinced what he 's saying true , yet it 's only what he 's been told in it ? |