Sentence examples for given a heads up from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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".

But who would imagine she would come up with such a thing [having a newborn and divorcing] without giving a heads up?

The white community was kind of giving a heads up,'" said Friedman, who is white.

"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.