Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] given [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 2 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 3 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 4 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 7 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 8 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 9 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 10 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
| 11 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 12 | What else could you do if you 'd been given no further guidance ? |
| 13 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 14 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 15 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 16 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 17 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 18 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 19 | They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert . |
| 20 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 21 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 22 | Ms Wilikins did not look too happy with the question for which she had been given no prior notice . |
| 23 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 24 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 25 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 26 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 27 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 28 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 29 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 30 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |