Sentence examples for was told for from inspiring English sources

But my mother was told "for the present you had better leave the buttons off".

Compact and round, she was told for years that she would never become a dancer.

I was told for one that they wanted someone more 'voluptuous'voluptuous

Born with severe physical handicaps, he was told for years that he could never hope to perform in public.

During my years of training, I was told, for instance, to control psychosis with psychoanalysis, which couldn't work.

I was told: For operational security reasons, the ADF will not provide mission-specific details on individual engagements against Daesh.

The exchange was telling for two reasons.

Comparable stories can be told for Canada or the US.

It is also a metaphor, I am told, for migration.

A similar story can be told for pedestrianisation.

In the same way, stories that were told for laughs show themselves to be eerie foreshadows.