Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] given [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I have been given Roy , the dra the engineering the the senior designer , Dennis er Kev who 's our |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 15 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 16 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Full of compassion , she exclaimed , ‘ Poor Aunt Bertha — I hope she 's been given pain-killers — ’ |
| 20 | Her legs have been bound to prevent further damage and she 's been given pain-killers . |
| 21 | We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We had been given flight clearance . ’ |
| 24 | We had been given books and we soon began learning . |
| 25 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been given reassurances that the water is safe to drink and it was just the long hot summer but we are not so sure . |
| 27 | I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to . |
| 28 | They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations . |
| 29 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 30 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |