Example sentences of "but [pron] have been told " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 2 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 3 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 4 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 5 | Ernest had no family , but I have been told that there were nephews . |
| 6 | Those problems were one cause of the delay that the hon. Gentleman described , but I have been told that the wait for that preliminary investigation is now down from six months to three months — the average in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | She was n't a relation but she had been told to call her Aunt Violet . |
| 8 | But she had been told where she could find Georgie early that evening . |
| 9 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 10 | The district council had offered to go to Boston to discuss the situation with Digital executives but they had been told there was little they could do . |
| 11 | Oliver looked from the Dodger to Charley Bates with great surprise and confusion , but he had been told not to ask questions . |
| 12 | Whitehall would have known , but he 'd been told nothing . |
| 13 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 14 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 15 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |