Example sentences of "[been] told the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 2 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 3 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 4 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 5 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 6 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 7 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 8 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 9 | Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth . |
| 10 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |
| 11 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 12 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 13 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 14 | Hard-up royal retainers , who earn around £8,500 a year , have been told the free electricity used in their grace and favour homes will be taxed in a new crackdown . |