On being told it was the medicine he desired, he asked me to draw near, and sent his courtiers away.
The darling old thing was all but killed by being told.
And, when Gwen repeated that her father had come, became alive to the necessity of acknowledging him, and had to give up the effort, being told to sit still.
M'riar she's been round to see the old lady there, being told to.
They would not be there long, being told off to work in gangs up-country, or assigned to the settlers as servants.
On being told he was wrong, he could not make them out; but the moment he touched them he said they were scissors, and seemed delighted with the discovery.
Being told that he must not touch it, after looking for some time, he said it was round.
Now and then they were encouraged by being told that if they had gone to the Front the Serbian officers would have flogged them.
The Bosniaks and Serbs who were thus done away with were frequently even less to blame than those ignorant peasants who, being told by their priests that Peter was their King, shouted "Long live King Peter!
Many another child besides Jean Ingelow has been saddened at being told by her father or other grown-up who was dancing her on his knee that he must put her down as he "had a bone in his leg".
A little girl of three, on being told by her mother of something which happened long before she was born, asked in amazement: "And what did you do without H.
Such reversals may be a kind of play too: the child not unnaturally gets tired now and then of being told that he is wrong, and for the moment imagines himself right and his elders wrong, immensely enjoying the idea.
My lord, being told this, came out with two gentlemen, and inquired who he was; which our hero told him.
Being told he was, he made a most lamentable moan, and said, he was just come from New England, and had the small-pox on him.
Being told that he was dead, he replied, “Then I will lay them on his tomb.
On being told by some of the princes that he was too easy and too ready to grant pardons, by which he encouraged crime, he replied that he would much rather be too indulgent than too severe.
Being told it was time to be conducted to the scaffold, he cheerfully attended the summons, having first eaten some bread and cheese, and drunk a quantity of coffee.
This made the Romans full of confidence again, and Antony, on hearing of it, was more disposed to take the road through the level country, being told that no water was to be hoped for on that through the mountains.
Now you may be unjustly treated in being toldto give up your friend, and you may feel, and rightly, that it is very cruel to him or her.
He was owner of a cotton plantation below there, and on being told of the above whipping, he said that slaves were often whipped to death for great offences, such as stealing, &c.
I shall not then live to see the surrender of Quebec," on being told that he was dying.
And onbeing told that it would not be then given, he replied, "When you give it to me, I shall know that I may drop off at once.
On being told he went out and returned in a few moments with tea, sugar, bread and sausages.
On being told, he advised me to say no more about it, and that he would endeavour to find it.
On being told of his good fortune, they one and all cheered and congratulated him.
Being told that it was, he had ordered breakfast at nine and a saddle-horse to be at the door at ten, to take him to Grimwith Abbey--one of the sights in our neighborhood which I had told him of the evening before.
The following anecdote of President Roosevelt's youth is being told in England: When Roosevelt was a student at Harvard he was required to recite a poem in public declamation.
A British magistrate, on being told by a vagabond that he was not married, responded: "That's a good thing for your wife.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being told" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
