Sentence examples for we were told off from inspiring English sources

We were told off by guys, 'Don't be a feminist.' That was what a lot of it was about in those days".

We constantly broke the rules because we didn't know what they were and we didn't take it well when we were told off!

We were told, off the record, by management who pulled us into a room and told us to start looking for a new job," an anonymous County Durham telesales employee told the BBC.

When we're being told off, we feel terrible that yet again we've done what we've been told not to.

We have been told off for talking!

We've been told off for trying to make Twitter a safe little echo chamber a blue port in this howling shit storm we call life but that's exactly what makes Instagram so great.

We've been told off for trying to make Twitter a safe little echo chamber – a blue port in this howling gob-shite storm – but that's exactly what makes Instagram so great.

When we arrived, apart from being told off by our new neighbours about our shoddy recycling (the bins had been more full than usual, and they'd sifted through the rubbish to find the culprits – us, according to a tea-stained envelope), no one spoke to us.

We can handle a negative church school inspection: nobody likes being told off, but we'll live with it.

I only remember being told off once.

Perhaps he had been told off?