Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been give " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 2 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 3 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 4 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 5 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 7 | I 've not been given any instructions ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 9 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 11 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 12 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 16 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 17 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 18 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 19 | I have recently been given an electric propagator and am keen to grow lots of plants from seed . |
| 20 | Q I have recently been given a fish tank which is 24″ × 12″ × 18″ . |
| 21 | If it is n't correct , I would like to know why Engineering 's approval has been withheld , because I have never been given any indication , at any stage , that there were any major problems regarding the project . |
| 22 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 23 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 24 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 25 | As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue . |
| 26 | She had not been given any choice in the matter . |
| 27 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 28 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 29 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 30 | She was still trying to take in the information she had just been given . |