Example sentences of "be tell at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 2 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 3 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 4 | How many of us , 1 wonder , were told at school to ‘ stop daydreaming ’ . |
| 5 | A SNEAK thief snatched a handbag while the owner was in a public toilet cubicle , magistrates were told at Warrington yesterday . |
| 6 | They have even more of a right to know if they are not being told at home . |
| 7 | Soft-hearted Mrs Garwood recalled being told at Dallas airport that food procured for the contras was simply rotting in the warehouses , just as the food sent to Ethiopia in the famine had never reached the starving . |
| 8 | We was told at school not to do that . |
| 9 | Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent . |
| 10 | The story of Mr Lock 's mind-bending trip was told at Bristol Family and Youth Court yesterday , when the 16-year-old girl , who can not be named , denied unlawfully administering a poison alleged to be LSD with intent to injure , aggrieve or annoy on May 13 . |
| 11 | ‘ Buckmaster — after due consultation with the PM I was told at Downing Street to issue a discreet alert . ’ |