Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had been told when he was first taken to Court . |
| 2 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 3 | That is where , or so he had been told , Brighton still offered a whiff of the cosmopolitan , esoteric atmosphere of the Left Bank in Paris or a hint of Berlin 's former decadence . |
| 4 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 5 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now he 's been told it 's not a fungus , it 's eczema . |
| 8 | My Lord the plaintiff 's case , as you can appreciate , is that Mr had very clearly , on several occasions in mid October , er requested a way out of this contract there was a way out er under the terms of the contract by service of special notice to complete erm and yet he had been told that there was no way that they could withdraw from the contract . |
| 9 | Otherwise he 's been told that he wo n't even be able to sell his liver for cat food . |