Example sentences of "being told [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , he might burst out laughing on being told of a tragedy , or cry at joyful news . |
| 2 | When the messenger arrived in his camp bringing news of his call to the throne , all Imrik said was ‘ Why ? ’ , and upon being told of the murders , he commented ‘ Bad , very bad ’ , which was considered quite long-winded for him . |
| 3 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 4 | Sgt Newman 's father , Eric , 58 , suffered a mild angina attack after being told of the shooting , and was being cared for by a neighbour last night . |
| 5 | In the Board 's view it is not open to the plaintiff on these pleadings to allege that Mr. Brant would have agreed to the plaintiff being told of the offer for Vertigo . |
| 6 | Her oil worker husband , Les , flew home after being told of the tragedy … on his 40th birthday . |
| 7 | Some patients , perhaps especially those who express anxiety about the risk of fire or who are known to have experienced a fire , may welcome being told about the fire precautions in the ward . |
| 8 | I can remember once being told by a karate teacher that the trick of breaking planks of wood with the edge of your hand was to aim your blow not at the planks but about six inches below them . |
| 9 | The Muzak reached a gap as she was about to knock on the door and she could hear he was being told by the hotel that his credit was n't good . |
| 10 | But , we , we really need to er , put the cart before the horse , or the horse before the cart as you may say , I mean , we are now being told by the leader of the Conservative group , that er , we 're going to , we , we should be supporting the idea of amateur parish constables . |
| 11 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 12 | Boyd 's team visited the ten pits after being told by the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to establish whether British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 13 | Why otherwise would the right hon. Member for Chesterfield feel the need to table such a motion and why would 24 other Members sign it , if they had real confidence in what they were being told by the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen and agreed with them ? |
| 14 | Both Soul and Brief History include Stephen Hawking 's anecdote about being told by the Pope that scientists might properly study the universe after the Big Bang , but that the bang , or Creation , itself , was the province of God . |