Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [been] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no reason why I should have been told , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ But I should have been told of your arrival , ’ the Baron went on . |
| 3 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
| 4 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 5 | With a planned hospital stay you will have been told to prepare for the operation as best as you can , perhaps by losing some weight , discontinuing any medication that you may be taking , or attempting to stop smoking . |
| 6 | You will have been told that 93% — or whatever — of British women are on a diet at any one time , but that , as a nation , we are still getting fatter . |
| 7 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We might have been told . |
| 9 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 10 | He says that the message from those giving evidence was that they should have been told what the situation was — that terreorist were known to be active in the region . |
| 11 | ‘ They might have been told to . ’ |
| 12 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 13 | They would have been told , all of them , before they left Washington that he was a friend of Harry Lawrence . |
| 14 | I 'm not actually sure that either er was mentioned erm , what they would have been told er was that there was an escaped prisoner there er who was armed and our intention was to arrest him . |
| 15 | I do n't think he may have been told about that , now he himself if he knew about that , that might be sufficient digging him over this hill |
| 16 | He should have been told . |
| 17 | He 'll have been told , for sure , that his folks are gone , and the place is let . ’ |
| 18 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 19 | If he had consulted a Green candidate , he would have been told that even the other parties ' policies are not tough enough in theory let alone practice . |