Example sentences of "[pron] were give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally , all first-born sons were dedicated to God , but monetary gifts later took their place , which were given to the priests . |
| 2 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 3 | The photo was one of a group of twenty-eight Rodchenko photographs which were given to the consigner in 1960 by Varvara Rodchenko , the artist 's daughter , and which raised £445,648 in total . |
| 4 | ‘ You have some papers , Fagin , ’ said Mr Brownlow quietly , ‘ which were given to you by Monks to look after . ’ |
| 5 | I fear that does not even begin to address our concern the assurances which were given on the last occasion about the Home Secretary 's attitude by the Noble Earl Lord which will no doubt be repeated later this afternoon , will of course hold good only for as long as Mr Howard is Home Secretary . |
| 6 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 7 | This will result in a narrowing of the range of costs which were given by Touche Ross when it costed four alternative options for single-tier councils . |
| 8 | The flotation went some way to offset criticism of the Nigerian government in a World Bank report , the details of which were given in the Financial Times of March 16 . |
| 9 | You were given into the care of people who reared you well . ’ |
| 10 | Dig out the 10,000 piece jigsaw of The Sky At Night that you were given for Christmas 10 years ago . |
| 11 | Check your local policy and the instructions you were given in lectures . |
| 12 | What about the treatment that you were given in Aberdeen ? |
| 13 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 14 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 15 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 16 | All of this information we were giving to the federal people , A T F , who are responsible for investigating and control these kind of activities . |
| 17 | Many more parents became governors , governing bodies changed in their size and balance of membership and they were given at least a formal opportunity to exercise greater control over the conduct of a school . |
| 18 | But none have forgotten the pain of being driven from their parents nor the welcome and love they were given at Waddesdon as a small compensation for that loss . |
| 19 | After the 36–6 defeat , Argentine coach Luis Gradin said : ‘ I was not happy with the three penalties they were given for collapsed scrums . |
| 20 | Like Leonard , they were given to the literary life . |
| 21 | When they were given to patients with high blood pressure , the immediate results were encouraging . |
| 22 | The movies were ‘ for the millions ’ but they were given to the millions by showmen . |
| 23 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 24 | ‘ They were given to me as a present . |
| 25 | They were given to me ! |
| 26 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 27 | What they were given to you ? |
| 28 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 29 | They were given on the express condition that they will never be played . |
| 30 | They were given by the Duke of Bedford , who also gave a statue of Bunyan to Bedford Corporation . |