Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 2 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 3 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 4 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 5 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 6 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 8 | I do n't know if Craig has told you , but I 've been given authority to extend our maintenance contract with you for a further year , without going to tender . |
| 9 | He said I 've been giving Lee dinner money every day . |
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| 11 | Two marvellous collections of photographs came to light — Miss Puckle 's and Mr Emmanuel Beddoes ' — I have been given permission to use these , and many others lent by individuals . |
| 12 | Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 , Andrew Lees of Friends of the Earth declared , ‘ I have been given clearance by my Board to seek a judicial review … we are very serious about this issue and are going to go for it . ’ |
| 13 | I have been given Roy , the dra the engineering the the senior designer , Dennis er Kev who 's our |
| 14 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 15 | As those Hon. Members who were in Committee know , I have been giving advice to Strathtay , which is the current Scottish Bus Group company , and to Stagecoach , both of which operate in my constituency . |
| 16 | If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them . |
| 17 | She had been given directions to a smallholding where they sold early strawberries on a roadside stall but she must have missed her way , taken a wrong turning and come out here . |
| 18 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 19 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 20 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 21 | Lilian Ormerod , 63 , of Stonedale Crescent , Norris Green , Liverpool , had been in Broadgreen Hospital 's cardio-thoracic centre , in which she had been given blood transfusions and other treatment for heart disease . |
| 22 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 23 | Well , Felipe could n't go to that woman anyhow because she was with her husband no matter what signals she had been giving Felipe . |
| 24 | Erm , the financial elements I find complex , I 'm sure from discussions with various members , they equally find it complex , but the position is , that in the current year , you have been given access to a specific grant . |
| 25 | Full of compassion , she exclaimed , ‘ Poor Aunt Bertha — I hope she 's been given pain-killers — ’ |
| 26 | Her legs have been bound to prevent further damage and she 's been given pain-killers . |
| 27 | We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways . |
| 28 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |
| 29 | ‘ We had been given flight clearance . ’ |
| 30 | We had been given books and we soon began learning . |