Example sentences of "just [be] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 2 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 3 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 4 | Have you just been given a position of more responsibility ? |
| 5 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The living room , originally furnished in rusty browns , has just been given a brighter look with soft peach paper and multi-striped curtains by Designers Guild . |
| 9 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 10 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 11 | Even if something has , in the first instance , been pillaged , rather than just been given as a gift or whatever , the statute of limitation could perfectly well have run out , and indeed , in Germany , if there has been a good-faith purchase in between , the period is ten years ’ . |
| 12 | We 'd just been given leave after the fiasco of Operation Eagle Claw , the so-called attempt to rescue the American hostages from our embassy in Teheran back in 1980 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 15 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was still trying to take in the information she had just been given . |
| 18 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 19 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 23 | He drank , and then began to think how he could use the information he 'd just been given . |
| 24 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 25 | Just been given a new exercise book , textbook . |
| 26 | Because of his experience , he 'd been taken further into God 's Kingdom , he 'd been given that vision into God 's Kingdom , now that 's more than just been given your eyesight , cos there 's a lot of people will see , who have their eyesight intact , but refuse to have the vision that was necessary to accept Jesus , new kingdom . |
| 27 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 28 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 29 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be visiting the Victorian mansion that is n't finished yet , and has just been given a grant to ensure that it never will be . |
| 30 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |