Sentence examples for told my background from inspiring English sources

I was told my background would prove useful, and was given seven weeks' training.

Sometimes she was oddly dead on, as when she told me my background was Scotch-Irish with a trace of German on my mother's side, or when she asked me about sleep apnea, which I have.

When I told him my background is Pakistani he opened up his notepad once again and showed me all these numbers in Pakistan that he claimed to regularly call.

He said: "I told him about my background, the sort of stories I had been doing.

"I told him about my background in Danzig and he said, 'Write about it.' I had never thought about writing a novel.

"I made sure to reply personally, and I told them about my background, and I was really pleased that none of them ever went to the papers afterwards.

He told me that my background in marketing and law might be able to help him commercialize one of his inventions.

"I didn't feel able to tell colleagues about my background until about two or three years ago.

Should I tell VCs about my background?

Going there makes me act real careful, it's very much treading on thin ice and I won't tell people about my background.

I reminded him of our in person June meeting where he told the room about my background and about the importance of my ideas.