Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then she has abandoned her contact lens in favour of glasses , having been told that in time her sight will return to normal . |
| 2 | Having been told I was special from a very young age , you believe everything is possible , but I also knew that you got nothing unless you worked hard . |
| 3 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 4 | Having been told by the gentleman at passenger enquiries that the Lowestoft train is one of the few in Britain to retain six-seater compartments , I am fully prepared to adopt my usual routine for such occasions ; I intend to rush on , secure an empty compartment , slide the door behind me , adopt the brazen-hussy-like pose of an Amsterdam whore in her front window ( tongue rolling out and knees wide apart , as I slouch across the upholstery ) , crook my index finger and beckon slowly at any commuters passing along the corridor outside who are considering invading my territory . |
| 5 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 6 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 7 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 8 | I was much too frightened to do so , having been told that the unbaptised would be consigned to hell , and — what was even worse — that in the eyes of God we did not exist . |
| 9 | Jesus took Peter , James and John into the garden , the rest of the disciples having been told to wait for them . |
| 10 | Two refused to talk , having been told they were being recorded ( which is mandatory procedure at the Beeb and quite rightly ) . |
| 11 | He says he is now living in fear , having been told that an £80,000 contract has been taken out on his life . |
| 12 | Having been told to strip off her clothes , even her shift , without looking at her body , and don a long , unbleached , calico nightdress , she was then told how she must lie in bed , straight down , her hands by her sides . |
| 13 | ‘ All solitude is selfish ’ , the poet recalls having been told ; and no one now |
| 14 | They may refuse to respond , on the grounds that they do not know what tiv means ( see Carey , 1978 ) ; they may ask what tiv means , and having been told to guess , offer a response ; or they may select a response without querying tiv . |
| 15 | I have tried to sell the shares on several occasions through Harvard , having been told " now is not the time to sell , " and " best I can do is 5p ! " |
| 16 | Having been told of his rights , he had decided , not surprisingly in the circumstances , that he did not require a solicitor . |
| 17 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 18 | Having been told that there can be a contract either for the sale of specific goods or for the sale of unascertained goods , one might ask , ‘ Is there not a third category ? |
| 19 | Having been told that the Government have conceded that the whole thing is nonsense , I can not begin to understand why we are not getting rid of it now , taking the strain off last year 's poll tax , which is becoming intolerable . |
| 20 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 21 | In fact the ack-ack unit , who thought , or hoped , they might be protecting the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret , in residence at Windsor Castle , almost missed the fun entirely , having been told the raid would be at 2 a.m . |
| 22 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 23 | My Lords , as we all know , having been told twice by our Minister that the cost of a pencil is twenty pence , will she now tell us what the overall cost has been and is for cash protection for grant maintained schools ? |