Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] given a [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 6 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 12 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 21 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 22 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 23 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 24 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
| 25 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 26 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 27 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 28 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |
| 29 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 30 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |