Example sentences of "have been tell [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners who shared a cell with an alleged murderer have been telling a jury about threats made against a police informer whose body was later found in a lake . |
| 2 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 3 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 4 | Thames Valley police officers have been telling the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke they need more people and resources to do the job . |
| 5 | Jail chiefs have been told a prisoner snatched the keys from a warder who fell asleep on duty . |
| 6 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 7 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 8 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
| 9 | Businessman John Foy and his wife Sally have been told the Pounds 250,000 house must go because it flouts planning regulations . |
| 10 | Employees at the company 's plants in Chester and Filton , Bristol , have been told the redundancies will come early next year . |
| 11 | Hard-up royal retainers , who earn around £8,500 a year , have been told the free electricity used in their grace and favour homes will be taxed in a new crackdown . |
| 12 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | This is a wide er feeling and er a feeling of great anger er because only recently we have been told the truth of how this money was used . |