Example sentences of "[verb] [been] told " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
2 | The court has been told that , minutes later and in daylight , Mrs Wilks , 22 , was abducted , then stabbed to death . |
3 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
4 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
5 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The commission has been told to report its findings by the end of February . |
8 | ‘ He has been told that if there is another occasion he will attract an indefinite period of time out of the game . |
9 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
10 | Our heart pumps faster , and we take a firm grip on the large , green-and-white golf umbrella by which Denice has been told to recognize us . |
11 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
12 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
13 | It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose . |
14 | … your Servant has been told , |
15 | Robyn has been told that he once had a beard , and he is forever fingering his chin as if he missed it . |
16 | The following story has been told on more than one occasion : |
17 | The child who has been told that he is ‘ useless ’ , ‘ stupid ’ or will ‘ never amount to anything ’ will go on to become an adult whose Inner Face is that of a worthless individual — even If events prove that the truth is very different . |
18 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
19 | Whatever the nurse staffing arrangements , each one needs to know what the patient has been told and what currently appears to be understood . |
20 | ‘ Please get stationery ready , Matron has been told we are to take another batch of severely wounded soldiers . |
21 | The pathetic story has been told , as far as it can now be known , in Mrs Spurling 's book , but an element of mystery remains . |
22 | Chris has been told by his doctor not to play bass for at least two weeks , but the band have been able to salvage the London show of the tour . |
23 | PRINCESS DIANA has been told she can not see her sons until next Tuesday . |
24 | ‘ The car is at the garage now and Elton has been told the damage can be repaired and the car will be back on the road as soon as possible . ’ |
25 | Now Philip McKenna has been told the council is pulling the block from under him . |
26 | But the woman has been told she would be breaking a law passed two years ago , which prevents sperm storage without the donor 's consent . |
27 | Mike Atherton , meanwhile , has been told he will be resuming his opening partnership with Graham Gooch — as long as his form warrants it . |
28 | But the church of Christ has been told that the ‘ gates of hell shall not prevail ’ against her . |
29 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
30 | Mrs Storey , 20 , has been told John could suffer long-term effects on is internal organs . |