Example sentences of "be tell [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are areas that are just what they want things passed on the hoof. left , right and centre when anyone else outside these areas wants it we 're told no money , no capital , ca n't be spent this year , wipe it off and I think you should be very careful or you might have a backlash where you least want it . |
| 2 | We 're told the brochure undersells ; but we like delivering holidays which are better than expected . |
| 3 | We know the details and the w they 're told the facts when we report it and then they 're given a summons . |
| 4 | We 're told the weather is going to get better by tomorrow , so that 's what we 're hoping . |
| 5 | Pedro Almodovar 's latest film marks his first attempt at a truly explorative internal narrative — as he explains : ‘ You do n't know it when you start to write a script , you think you 're telling a story . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're telling a fib . |
| 7 | No , we 're telling the government , we 're telling them they 've got it wrong excuse me . |
| 8 | Basically they 're just telling the Party to consider the demands of the peasants and do what the peasants want but then er then in the first paragraph they say that you ought to erm they ought to support the masses in their erm implementation of agrarian reform , you have to give them planned guidance so it 's almost that how they 're telling the cadres to go out there and almost manipulate the peasants demands into more of a communist one . |
| 9 | ‘ How do we know you 're telling the truth ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How do I know you 're telling the truth ? |
| 11 | ‘ You 're telling the truth , and you want to do what 's right . ’ |
| 12 | If you 're telling the truth , Peter , you can be back here in no time . |
| 13 | I 'm sure anyone looking at you now would be convinced that we 're telling the truth . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder if you 're telling the truth . |
| 15 | I am told the sky was brilliant and alive with red and green and white flares . |
| 16 | Julie Burchill turns to thriller writing with No Exit ( Mandarin ) ; I am told the sex is there but nowhere near as over the top as in Ambition , but I have n't read it . |
| 17 | I am told the guardian ad litem needs approximately 14 days to prepare an up to date report , which I will order to be prepared . |
| 18 | Now that I have also fitted 750 x 16 SAT tyres the vehicle is very sluggish , I am told the solution would be to change the diffs , but to which ones ? |
| 19 | The family has been told a rabbit would be allowed on the head stone of the infant in the parish church . |
| 20 | Jail chiefs have been told a prisoner snatched the keys from a warder who fell asleep on duty . |
| 21 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 22 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been told the forms are private and confidential , but by the time you finish filling them in , your whole life is there for someone to see . ’ |
| 24 | At no point had any of us been told the procedure that would lead to us being selected to start our basic training . |
| 25 | The problem is compounded by the fact that we have not been told the prices realised by the sale of the NBC 's subsidiary companies . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been told the players pray five times a day — even if it means interrupting training ! |
| 27 | Coun Williams added officers had contacted the African National Congress ' London office for guidance and had been told the organisation would not welcome trade with the country while sanctions are still in place . |
| 28 | ‘ The car is at the garage now and Elton has been told the damage can be repaired and the car will be back on the road as soon as possible . ’ |
| 29 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 30 | His son , Li Yuan , had seen it all five years before , in those first few days after he had been told the secret of their world — the Great Lie upon which everything was built . |