Example sentences of "you have be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 2 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 3 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 4 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |