Sentence examples similar to told act from inspiring English sources

After I was raped, the first friend I told acted like I hadn't said anything.

Logs along the beach we were told acted as excellent bunker fuel sponges, and people would be gathering these logs to burn later in the day.

"The 'don't ask, don't tell' act infringes the fundamental rights of United States service members in many ways," she wrote.

So why did many Washington Post reporters decide, last week, that it would constitute a telling act of protest against the paper's management if they took their bylines off their pieces?

But alongside these broad, imperfect efforts, Shipler threads a glowing filament: the telling acts of kindness, so often just small offerings, that lift both giver and receiver.

And then there are the telling acts of omission by this administration.

The next stories Luke tells (Acts 3 1-5 11) place this idealized community-of-care in a very different light: namely, a stubbornly unrepentant and fallen world.

Yasser Arafat telephoned his condolences to Binyamin Netanyahu; he was told to act more resolutely against terrorists.

In one outline, the actor is to told to act "uncomfortably".

Why should anyone be told to act their age when it comes to getting dressed?

Is this George Osborne's knee-jerk reaction to being told to "act natural"?