Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been told [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 2 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 3 | Jones said : ‘ He has been told to lose weight since Christmas but he has n't bothered himself . ’ |
| 4 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 5 | It 's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution . |
| 6 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
| 7 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |
| 8 | Now he 's been told to stop doing a good turn for pensioners and others who otherwise have to wait minutes for a gap in the traffic . |
| 9 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |