Example sentences of "[pron] 've [been] given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 2 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 3 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 4 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 5 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 6 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 7 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |