Sentence examples for given a heads from inspiring English sources

Again, many allies felt they were not given a heads up that the announcement was coming.

Perhaps worse, we learned a few days later that the United States had been given a "heads up" by their British counterparts that they were planning on detaining Miranda.

Alan Rusbridger Photograph: /BBC News Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.34pm BST13:34 Almost 24 hours after the White House said the Americans were given a "heads up" about the detention of David Miranda, Number 10 has now said that it was kept informed too.

A US government spokesman has admitted the administration was given a "heads up" about the case but denied that it was at their request.

A US government spokesman said the administration was given a "heads up" about the detention but denied that it had been carried out at its request.

He joked that Google wasn't given a heads up about the activities of the American NSA, which he noted that in slang is often called "never say anything".

"I should have been given a heads-up about this, that's protocol," he shouts.

I assumed that the deli guy at Giant Eagle had been given a heads-up before me.

They were also given a heads-up about the town's plans to auction off the old bank building, a historic but dilapidated structure recently seized for back taxes.

A similar situation cropped up at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, said Janet Pierson, the festival producer, who was given a heads-up from Mr. Lipson that Ms. McKinney might appear.

Assuming your corporate travel agent hasn't done so already, you would probably want to be given a heads-up on the following before you start packing: "The cities of Jakarta and Medan, in addition to other locations, have been struck by a number of bombings in recent months.