Example sentences of "had be tell [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scathach had been telling about his first journey through the wood . |
| 2 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 3 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 4 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |
| 5 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 6 | He had known of the death of Oleg Demyonov , he had been told of the Soviet retaliation , he had been informed of the visit by the Consul to Lefortovo gaol . |
| 7 | Thackeray had been told of the death and of the anatomical examination after it was all over and he had spoken ‘ with warmth and sharpness ’ to Mr. Leech . |
| 8 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 9 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 10 | She had been told of the event and sent back ‘ a really beautiful letter , ’ says John . |
| 11 | It had been told to him many years ago when he was a boy , shortly after he had arrived in Carewscourt . |
| 12 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 13 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 14 | She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties . |
| 15 | The conference had been told on Dec. 5 that some 780 million people in the world 's developing countries had insufficient food for their daily needs , that 190 million children aged under five suffered from malnutrition [ see this page for UNICEF report ] , and that up to 2,000 million people were suffering less serious dietary shortages . |
| 16 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 19 | At a meeting in the Kremlin last Saturday , General Vladimir Kryuchkov , head of the KGB and one of the newest members of the politburo , implicitly admitted the lies that had been told about the role of the secret police in Stalin 's repression . |
| 20 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 21 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 22 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 23 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 24 | Alix had been told about poverty , in Leeds , at school and at home . |
| 25 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 26 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 27 | He knew from the stories he had been told in the chapel that many people in days of old had seen God or one of God 's angels . |
| 28 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 29 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |
| 30 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |