Example sentences of "'s [been] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 2 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |
| 3 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 4 | Bill 's been told to enter his horses in several races abroad , with you riding . ’ |
| 5 | Your brain 's been told what to expect . |
| 6 | He 's willing to risk it , and he 's been told the risk . ’ |
| 7 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 8 | Otherwise he 's been told that he wo n't even be able to sell his liver for cat food . |
| 9 | The Registry 's been told . |
| 10 | Well I think the chairman of the committee s is aware , because he 's been , he 's been told . |
| 11 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 12 | I can tell you of er of a man who 's been told that he should see his children less |
| 13 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 14 | He 's been told it could be next week , but he wo n't believe it until he wakes up after his operation , in one of those six intensive care beds.Even then , he 'll still be waiting . |
| 15 | After almost fifty years with Nuffield Press in Oxford , the last five under the ownership of Robert Maxwell , he 's been told he wo n't see anything of his pension fund totalling around thirty-eight thousand pounds … |
| 16 | An inquest 's been told that a husband was seen in Great Yarmouth the day AFTER his wife and two children were killed at their Gloucestershire home . |
| 17 | He 's been told he and twenty nine other senior council officers will have to pay back golden handshake payments made to streamline the council 's management . |
| 18 | A jury 's been told that the former manager and chairman of Swindon Town cheated the taxman in an effort to improve the club 's playing staff . |
| 19 | It 's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution . |
| 20 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 21 | He 's been told he can do it legally only if he takes his uniform off first . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher 's been told to shut-up by her former press secretary . |
| 24 | Rush hour in Oxford and this taxi driver 's been told his exhaust pollution 's too high . |
| 25 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |
| 26 | Anthony Gilberthorpe was originally awarded damages of more than sixty thousand pounds , but now that 's been overturned and he 's been told he must pay all the costs . |
| 27 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 28 | The court 's been told it was probably done by a three year old boy . |
| 29 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 30 | But now she 's been told she ca n't . |