Example sentences of "[vb base] be give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the All Clear was given they walked home , recalling the dances and parties at which those songs had been sung and Anne thought Sarah was near to tears . |
| 2 | The next tactic they use is to give us advice . |
| 3 | What the picks do is give you a much smoother treble , with none of that awful ‘ ping ’ you get with ordinary plastic ones . |
| 4 | All they do is give you some ointment and tell you it 'll drop out in its own good time . |
| 5 | We 've got According to the information I 've been given we 've got seven thousand cubic metres of which is useful |
| 6 | philosophical side of Marxism which is very interesting and there 's a lot of very deep thoughts but what we 've been given your definition , is what I 'd say is the political strategy that Marx said er was necessary to achieve the philosophical ends . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 9 | I hope I 've been given I hope I be the temporary staff but , those homes are being refurbished , there are no vacant beds in those homes because they are being refurbished . |
| 10 | I think I 've been given it er some good cause rather than |
| 11 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 12 | We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years . |
| 13 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 14 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 15 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 16 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 17 | Try saying : ‘ I find it difficult to handle the put-downs you 've been giving me . |
| 18 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 20 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 22 | When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous ! |
| 23 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 24 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 25 | But they , they er I mean you do n't have to be too bright to realize that the questions have been given them and the answers have g been given them . |
| 26 | Of course , you do need to monitor people once they have been given their tasks . |
| 27 | Interviewers must seek out , contact and interview their allotted sub-samples , and once they have been given their tasks they must work relatively independently . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ The Sids of old have been given their share certificates and they are reluctant to give them up . |
| 29 | Once a development and its house styles have been given their identity there 's one final area that needs addressing — naming the roads . |
| 30 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |