Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [be] give [prep] " in BNC.

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1 During the spring and summer of 1939 , Hitler intimidated Poland over his claim for the right to have back a corridor — which Poland had been given after the Greet War to give Poland an access to the Baltic Sea , including the port of Danzig .
2 Sir Nicholas Cayzer , whose baronetcy had been given to his father by Lloyd George , was raised to the peerage by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 .
3 Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man .
4 Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man .
5 The bulk of his lands had been given to Gilbert de Clare and , under the terms of the Dictum of Kenilworth , had to be repurchased by Fitzjohn at five times their annual value .
6 what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 …
7 I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written .
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