Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] give [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 2 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 3 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 4 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 5 | A second inscription on the opposite side reveals that it had been given as a wedding present to the employer himself in 1838 . |
| 6 | Small amounts of heroin , which Kedie said he had been given by a friend , were also found . |