Example sentences of "he had been told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 6 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 9 | He had been told by the doctors that he would be dead within a year if he did n't stop drinking . |
| 10 | He had tried to do as he had been told by the Pessarane Behesht . |
| 11 | He had been told by the police to say as little as possible to anyone . |
| 12 | By way of illustration , he cited the case of his Preface to The Dark Side of the Moon , which , according to what he had been told by a Foreign Office official , would certainly be so taken ; but I felt that there would be infinitely more likelihood of the remarks of T. S. Eliot being heeded than those of E. W. F. Tomlin . |
| 13 | His father Phillip , of Erndhura , Farnascullogue , Lisnaskea , said he had been told by other students that lifts frequently broke down and students often clambered out of them . |
| 14 | Mr Fallon said he had been told by Mr Shiro Fujimoto , the managing director of Fujitsu , that the company would be increasing its workforce by between 140 and 240 by 1993 . |
| 15 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 16 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |