Example sentences of "[adv] be told [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coonts , whose experiences include flying A-6 Intruders from the carrier USS Enterprise during the Vietnam War , relates this aerial odyssey across America as it can only be told from the cockpit ! |
| 2 | The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund : |
| 3 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |
| 4 | One more thing , if I may , we 've just been told of the government 's first response to the consultation arrangements , sorry , wrong wrong item , it 's all right . |
| 5 | Rugby has survived all these years as a good robust contact sport , and as we are always being told by the medical profession that modern youth is bigger , stronger and fitter than children of previous generations , why ca n't we play rugby as it is supposed to be played rather than a genteel non-contact pass ball ? |
| 6 | The suspect must also be told of the ground of arrest at the time or as soon as is practicable thereafter ( s.28(3) and D.P.P. |
| 7 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 8 | But , we , we really need to er , put the cart before the horse , or the horse before the cart as you may say , I mean , we are now being told by the leader of the Conservative group , that er , we 're going to , we , we should be supporting the idea of amateur parish constables . |
| 9 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 10 | Well , I 'm sorry , if I was in my workplace I would n't be happy representing a member and then be told by the employer , I 'm not required to tell you why you 've lost your appeal and I do n't think this is something we should do within our own organization on our own members . |
| 11 | The American base of RAF Mildenhall has not yet been told by the Pentagon that it can spend the necessary cash on the show , which last year attracted 406,000 people . |
| 12 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 13 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |