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Example sentences for "you have been told"

  • You have been told that he was an Infidel.

  • You have been told that he was a pauper, that he died in wretchedness and want.

  • You have been told by the clergy that his writings are immoral.

  • You have been told that he was a drunkard.

  • As you have been told before, the Germans were sure that England, being unprepared for the war, would never dare to go into it.

  • The Greeks, as you have been told, have always claimed Macedonia as part of their country, whereas, in truth, there are more Bulgarians than Greeks among its inhabitants.

  • Mr. Marmon furnishes team and Indian driver to take you out to Acoma; and please remember, the distance is not twenty-five or fifty miles as you have been told, but an easy eighteen with a good enough road for a motor if you have one.

  • You have been told so often that you have come to believe it--that our mountains in America lack the human interests; lack the picturesque character and race types dotting the Alps, for instance.

  • You have been told so often that the mountains of America lack human and historic interest that you have almost come to believe it.

  • You have been told that we are a demoralized people; that the tide of dishonesty is rising ready to sweep from one shore of our country to the other.

  • You have been told by the district attorney--and if I have said anything too strong in the warmth of this discussion I beg his pardon.

  • Now, then, you have been told by Judge Doolittle all the men who swore that he did swear before the grand jury, that he did not know of any crookedness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you have 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:
    white horses; you ask; you find; you had; you just; you knew; you may; you may depend upon; you not; you should; you solemnly swear the testimony you; young brother; young chap; young gentlemen; young lady; young queen; young trees; young widow; younger brother; youngest brother; your children; your country; your hand; your heart; your house; your soul