Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 2 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 3 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 4 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 7 | We 've got According to the information I 've been given we 've got seven thousand cubic metres of which is useful |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I think I 've been given it er some good cause rather than |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 12 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have been given your husband 's log book by your brother , Mrs Hatton , ’ he said gently as she recovered herself . |
| 19 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
| 20 | In this respect , my analysis can be located close to the ‘ Alternative Economic Strategy ’ ( AES ) — which has been given its most lucid expression by the CSE London Working Group ( 1980 ) — in its acceptance of the need for socialists to offer constructive and credible proposals for regenerating economic growth and reducing unemployment even if these appear to fall short of ‘ true socialism ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ God 's own love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given us , ’ says Paul in Romans 5:5 , and he rejoices to hear of that ‘ love in the Spirit ’ , which is to be found in the church at Colossae ( 1:8 ) . |
| 23 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 24 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 25 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 26 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 27 | Try saying : ‘ I find it difficult to handle the put-downs you 've been giving me . |
| 28 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |