Example sentences of "i was give [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was given a pile of sacristy wash rather than vests , sheets and shirts . |
| 2 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |
| 3 | Once after I had recited at the Guild I was given a pair of woollen gloves , speckled coloured , and with cuffs , which was quite an unexpected treat . |
| 4 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 5 | I was given a dummy in which to do my preliminary sketches , but the dummy was designed so beautifully by Amelia Edwards that I was really happy with my work . |
| 6 | Recently , I was given a copy of an old book , A guide to the Fishing Inns of Scotland , by R. Crombie Saunders , one-time editor of The Scottish Angler , and published in 1951 . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was there I was given a copy of a US Senate foreign relations report which alleged that a large number of British POWs from the Second World War had disappeared in Soviet hands , and that a number of United Nations troops had been taken by the Soviets from the Chinese during the Korean War and never returned . |
| 8 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 9 | I was given a list of 12 absolutes that if the promoter could not provide , I was to cancel the gig on the spot . |
| 10 | Although I was shackled to a radiator , my blindfold was removed and I was given a cup of water and a sweetmeat . |
| 11 | Hitch-hiking home from London to Wales after attending my interviews , I was given a lift on a roundabout outside Monmouth in South Wales . |
| 12 | I was given a set of exercises to do , and since then I 've been all right . ’ |
| 13 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 14 | My function was to select and train the Pathfinders , I was given the choice of what I claim was the best and if I did not pick the best . |
| 15 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 16 | Mr Kaye writes : ‘ Through the intervention of my councillor , Eddie Clein , I was given the names of two officers . |
| 17 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 18 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 19 | I was given the task of preparing a document , which was adopted without opposition in March 1991 by all nine nations and all four political parties . |
| 20 | I was given the job of going to fetch the agent , but Dad offered to go and so I went with him . |
| 21 | As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days . |
| 22 | I was given the taste for bigger journalism . |
| 23 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 24 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 25 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 26 | In his memoirs , O'Neill offers an unconvincing explanation for this major concession ; ‘ I was fully aware of the advantage I was giving the Republicans as all the votes would take place well within the new president 's honeymoon period . |