Example sentences of "was tell [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We was told at school not to do that . |
| 2 | Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent . |
| 3 | Oddly enough a similar tale was told of Guntram by the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacon . |
| 4 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 5 | But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails . |
| 6 | The Libyan plane was about eight nautical miles from Italian air space when it was told by air traffic controllers in Malta that it could not fly over Italian territory , an Italian air force spokesman said . |
| 7 | John Kamm , a US businessman and human rights activist , was told by government officials that all those detained in connection with the pro-democracy movement had now been brought to trial . |
| 8 | THE mother who was stabbed shortly after a double killing in Carrick was told by fortune tellers that an attempt would be made on her life before the New Year . |
| 9 | Clift was told by director Elia Kazan that Dean idolized him and that although he liked Brando as well , he was more affected by Clift . |
| 10 | Twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn was told by Sheriff Susan Raeburn that the case was one of the worst she 'd heard . |
| 11 | Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , the deputy secretary of state who has been given the job of co-ordinating America 's help for Eastern Europe , was told by Congress that the money the administration has in mind is too modest , but that its ideas about who should control the distribution of this money are immodest . |
| 12 | The Stirlingshire farmer who claims that toxic emissions were responsible for him having to destroy his entire dairy herd was told in court today that he and his wife were to blame . |
| 13 | He was told in detail of the fields Riddle had bought from under Sidney 's very nose and how Riddle then served him with notice to quit . |
| 14 | The story was told in detail by a descendant of these settlers , the historian Charon , who , being one of the earliest Greek historians , was in a position to set up a model . |
| 15 | An example of this is the young man with the enlarged spleen whose story was told in Chapter 1 . |
| 16 | I was told in confidence last week , so by next week it will be public , that there are to be 200 redundancies now , and the rest will , hopefully , be effected by natural wastage . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I was told in effect to bugger off and stop being a pest . |