Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [be] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 2 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 3 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 4 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 5 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 6 | Q I have recently been given a fish tank which is 24″ × 12″ × 18″ . |
| 7 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 11 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 12 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 13 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 14 | It has now been given a £1 million ( $1.7 million ) estimate by Sotheby 's who will be taking it to Japan prior to the sale , although the market for Constable in Japan is not particularly developed . |
| 15 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |