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Example sentences for "been told"

  • I never saw it myself, but I've been told by people that I believe, that these Saulteaux up North used to boil water in their birch bark dishes.

  • Do you or don't you want a trustworthy passport and good money to go where you've been told?

  • You've been told of the invitation to read at the literary matinee.

  • I've been told that Mr Bideawhile says so.

  • Then you've been told an infernal falsehood,' said Montague passing on.

  • He had, indeed, been told by Montague himself that, let the cost be what it might, the engagement should be and in fact had been broken off.

  • I've been told to have it completed by a certain time, and I haven't days and weeks to spend splitting hairs in court.

  • I've been told to build this railroad and, Mr. Attorney, I'm going to build it.

  • We've been told to take you to Number 7 camp, and to that camp ye're goin'.

  • We've been told to go ahead here," said the "boss.

  • Still know I more about him, / that has to me been told.

  • Gladstone could do it in five, I've been told.

  • I think, even if I hadn't been told, I should have felt instinctively that it must have been built to please a pretty, capricious woman.

  • Had I been told that it was a study of the Honorary Treasurer of the Splodgeworth Goose Club on bail, I should have held it an excellent likeness.

  • No doubt you've been told to keep quiet, but I don't count.

  • Had I been told that a cyclone had struck our bedroom, I should not have been surprised.

  • Odeon repeated what he'd been told, seeing astonishment to match his own on the women's faces.

  • I'm Special Ops, Captain, and I've been told I'll be going face to face with Shayan.

  • He seldom or never Could see without light, And yet I've been told he Could hear in the night.

  • Perhaps you will laugh, But for truth I've been told He once was an infant Tho' age made him old.

  • He is some sort of a relative to Sitting Bull, so I've been told, and he won't give in that the white man is master of the situation.

  • Some of the men don't want any women around, so I've been told.

  • He's a well-educated fellow, so I've been told, and not as brutal as some.

  • Yet, according to all I've been told, Horbury's a thoroughly straight man of business.

  • Beyond what you've been told--exactly," replied Neale.

  • The men were made to stand close by and remained just where they had been told to stay, tweed cap in hand, miserably conscious of the many pairs of eyes that were fixed upon them.

  • He'd been told so many times he must not fight that she was afraid he would have to be punished for such a bad fight as this.

  • Libby thought of the generous supper in the pasteboard box which they had been told to eat as soon as it was dark, but she allowed herself to be led down the aisle without a word.

  • If she couldn't stop him somehow he'd keep on till he was sick, and she'd been told to take care of him.

  • And I know he'd drink the water cooler dry just for the pleasure of turning it into his new drinking cup you gave him, if he hadn't been told not to.

  • One of the best, I've been told," said Quillan.

  • If we hadn't been told, we'd know now, of course.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been told" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been carried; been committed; been decreed; been for; been found; been known; been made; been more; been murdered; been placed; been seen; been talkin; been thinkin; been thinking; been through; been told; been used; been wanting; been wondering; being mentioned; better then; cigar store; did not; dinna think; produced artificially; think over