Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have been give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 2 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 3 | ‘ I think the most important thing for the residents is that they have been given their dignity back , ’ said the Duchess afterwards . |
| 4 | Of course , you do need to monitor people once they have been given their tasks . |
| 5 | Interviewers must seek out , contact and interview their allotted sub-samples , and once they have been given their tasks they must work relatively independently . |
| 6 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 7 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 8 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 9 | IF you have been giving you house plants a summer airing in the garden , it is now time to bring them in again . |
| 10 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 12 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 13 | you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping |
| 14 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 16 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 17 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 18 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |