Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been give the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been given the responsibility of securing the capital , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 2 | " I 've been given the brush … |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been given the sack , ’ Leith told her shakily , and , over coffee , gave her a blow-by-blow account . |
| 4 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 5 | I 've been giving the matter a lot of thought . |
| 6 | I 've been giving the milkman a blow job , you know , that sort of thing . |
| 7 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 9 | That does n't last for ever , and it 's not easy to psych yourself up to get another job after you 've been given the push . |
| 10 | You 've been given the battery ? |
| 11 | I am therefore pleased to advise you that you have been given the contract for the delivery of 40 ZX Computex reader printers at £75 per drop , making a total charge of £3000 . |
| 12 | You have been given the ability to recognise your own apprehensions , to accept them and then to let them go . |
| 13 | It 's really a record simply that you have been given the authority . |
| 14 | Because we have been given the possibility of sight , it is no surprise when we are inconsolable if we have no eyesight . |
| 15 | I believe that we have been given the right to have dominion over animals . |
| 16 | We have been given the status , resources and expertise to do so — on both sides of the Channel . |
| 17 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 18 | Every sales consultant has covered the basics ; they have been given the tools for success ; the Super Sales Grit ingredient takes you to where no sales-person has previously thought to go . |
| 19 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 20 | They have been given the names of ‘ the mouse-pounce ’ , ‘ the bird-swat ’ and ‘ the fish-scoop ’ . |