Sentence examples for being told over a from inspiring English sources

Even Oprah Winfrey was turned down for a television interview a few years ago, being told over a private lunch: "I am really Boo".

Asked to explain how many staff had been trained specifically in the skills of negotiation, as opposed to the technicalities of a trade deal, the committee was told "over 30" had attended a session specifically on negotiation skills.

The narrative of European colonialism is told over and over again in an inaccurate and "whitewashed" manner.

When you as a manager are told over and over again that your employees will get raises and over and over again, the raises don't come through, you become part of the problem.

These strange rituals may produce a few war stories to be told over a drink.

The story is told over a succession of animated scenes, with speech bubbles and words highlighted in red as they're spoken, so that children can follow along.

Ms Briscoe, a mother-of-two, was a friend and neighbour of Pryce in Clapham, south London, and claims that she was told over a glass of wine shortly after the event that Huhne bullied the economist into taking his penalty points.

And that could be, I am told, "over a period of many months".

I asked where the bank was located and was told over a Pizza Hut in a rundown office.

The 550 rubles we gave him probably could have fed his family for a month and was a small price to pay for a story of intrigue to be told over a snifter of my last remaining bottle of KVINT brandy.

An hour later, he said, he was told over an intercom to take off his shoes, strip down to his underwear and show each clothing item to a security camera.