Example sentences of "have just been given " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 6 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He drank , and then began to think how he could use the information he 'd just been given . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 15 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 16 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A TEENAGER and three of his pals died when he crashed the car he had just been given as a present . |
| 19 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | She was still trying to take in the information she had just been given . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 26 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 27 | I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company . |
| 28 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |