Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] told [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 2 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 3 | It turned out , after cross examination , that the bottle in question was in fact a bottle of Algizin-P , which she had been told to use to keep her fish healthy . |
| 4 | She was n't a relation but she had been told to call her Aunt Violet . |
| 5 | She would be in Mountsorrel , where she had been told to leave the coach , by three . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought so too , ’ Jenna murmured , trying to get her agitated breathing under control , quite sure that this was doing her no good at all when she had been told to go very carefully for a while . |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent , the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt . |