Sentence examples for will be told off from inspiring English sources

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An old cemetery near my home is the place I take my daughters to play and explore the outdoors, but I worry that I will be told off for allowing them to frolic around in such an austere place.

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So I cleaned up a little bit and the ladies across the road in the bread shop said, 'Oh, you shouldn't be doing that, you'll be told off'".

His admission means the pair are absent from what has been described as a "logistics camp" in Sydney, where the players will be told about the off-field requirements and team planning ahead of the Lions Tests in June and July.

In the next few weeks, more than 130,000 mortgage holders with the nationalized UK bank Northern Rock will be told their home loans have been sold off as part of an attempt to help repay Britain's national debt.

Sometimes, it seems as though the story of modernity will be told as a series of unsettling trade-offs between longstanding values and contemporary comforts.

Jokes will be told.

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

If I had to guess, though, I'd say I'll be told to get off my high horse and that the comments section exists for a reason; that this is what I signed up for, so essentially, I did this to myself; that I need to grow a pair and pursue an Oedipal relationship with my mother; and that I should stop whining and start appreciating that anyone is paying attention to my pitiful, pathetic existence.

If you can't get it off, you'll be told to leave.

This year the replanted garden at E-1027 is also open (those who make the mistake of walking on the grass will be sternly told off – that's a guarantee).

The male priest, if he is present at all, has only a minor part to play and he will be sharply told off if he gets any of his lines wrong.

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