Example sentences of "he [verb] be give the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think .
2 But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck .
3 He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack .
4 Having written a fairly scathing account of this approach in draft , I sent it to John Austin Baker ( as I have also sent my account of their work to Christian feminists whom I discuss in this book for comment ) only to receive a delightful letter from him which rescinded much that he had written , explained that he had been given the title , and essentially agreed with my criticism !
5 Harry 's great merit was that , once he had been given the ball , he was a speedy and direct raider .
6 He had been given the opportunity to resign , but declined , and was then suspended , after which the matter had been reported to the Minister of Health , who subsequently consented to his dismissal .
7 But chairman Tony Lewis denied last night he had been given the boot .
8 Through his active involvement in European institutions — serving , for example , as president of both the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the OEEC — he had been given the accolade of being ‘ Mr Europe ’ .
9 A former member of his Household , reviewing the collapse of the Wales 's marriage , sincerely believes that he would have remained single if he had been given the choice .
10 At this distance it is impossible to tell if Gert could have made more of his early life if he had been given the chance to make use of the ‘ creative ability ’ spotted early on by one of his helpers .
11 Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ?
12 Aubrey 's arrival had augmented the difficulty since he had been given the guest room adjoining Harry 's .
13 He had been given the topic , ‘ Exploration ’ , and Keith Vaughan the theme of ‘ Discovery ’ .
14 He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea .
15 He 's been given the award for his role in ending the Cold War , freeing the Eastern Block and resolving regional conflicts .
16 I 'm a little bit surprised Stone has n't tried to get a bit closer to him although I think he 's been given the job of tracking Agnew who 's more of an attacking midfield player .
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