Example sentences of "been promised a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keegan has even been promised a taxi ride anywhere he wants if his players deliver the goods . |
| 2 | It would n't matter if you 'd been promised a king 's ransom if you achieved a lucky jump to the scorpion . |
| 3 | We have been promised a grant of £1,000 from the Village Association , and a further long-term loan from them of £1,000 . |
| 4 | She feared John might not be at home but he was , and was very excited because he had been promised a job . |
| 5 | Government or Grand Met : whose fault , asks licensee Publicans in Darlington whose livelihoods are threatened by massive rent increases have been promised a meeting with the property company owning their pubs . |
| 6 | For the past 10 years , my constituency has been promised a hospital , but no progress has been made . |
| 7 | The bruiser would n't have been promised a reward of twenty quid otherwise . |
| 8 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 9 | ( Since then I have been in touch with Texas four times and been promised an answer for which I am still waiting after nearly two years ) . |
| 10 | Dora had asked about sporting facilities in the region and been promised an interview with the manager of a leisure complex in Alès ; Rose , who belonged to an amateur drama group in Carshalton , was to meet the director of a forthcoming performance of ‘ son et lumière ’ whose office was in Anduze . |