Example sentences of "[pron] have just [been] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |