Sentence examples for told to tick from inspiring English sources

"We were led to believe there would be no cremation and told to tick a box".

Persons seeking work on building sites were handed an officially-designed checklist designed to check their employed/self-employed status, and told to "just tick these boxes and sign it".

Caine shows more appetite for the task; Dench's book, dispiritingly, is "as told to John Miller", and its ticking off of productions has the air of being a dutifully performed chore.

The fear, he said, intensified late last fall when he was told to wait outside the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton, N.J., to meet Dominic Truscello, a Lucchese capo.

"I told them you have to tick a box and that's it," the owner said.

Everything has gone pretty quiet on the latter front, although I'm told that ticket sales continue to tick along nicely.

In the "About You" part of the survey householders were asked to tick boxes telling the city council if they were gay, straight or bisexual, and if they had a religious denomination.

It was like…Yeah but having a tutor tell me that…we just had to tick boxes.

Mr Wallace told delegates that Lib Dems had been able to tick off over 70% of their 1999 manifesto commitments.

I don't know what it is, but I can tell you the kind of boxes it needs to tick.

He told Australia's ABC: "I am extremely comfortable that we will tick all the boxes that Unesco is seeking us to tick".