Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] told by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been told by the local hospital that she can not have an appointment until June 1993 . |
| 2 | Topaz Chilcott would give her a sly looks She 'd been told by Tipper , who would n't leave the subject alone , that all tinkers were sly . |
| 3 | Mrs MacIllarry said she 'd been told by her mother that Jobson had once phoned saying he would kill her and then himself . |
| 4 | She , she 'd been told by the Reeds that |
| 5 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 6 | She possessed an uncanny memory and recalled painful detail , in perfect clarity , that she had been told by the physician from India . |
| 7 | It was what she had been told by the sisters at the convent . |
| 8 | Beatrice Webb recorded that she had been told by both a working class male school attendance officer and by the female manager of a block of ‘ model dwellings ’ that working class women were not able to talk to their husbands , having little in their heads but household details . |
| 9 | On the previous evening she had been told by her MP , Sir Ralph Grunte , that she reminded him of ‘ the young Alma Cogan ’ , but she had no idea who Alma Cogan was . |