Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was give " in BNC.
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1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
2 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
3 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
6 | If the ulcer had healed , the patient started a maintenance regimen of ranitidine ( 150 mg at night ) otherwise he or she was given an additional supply of ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) . |
7 | We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes . |
8 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
9 | Amenhotep , who had been found with a garland of flowers still round his neck , went by train , first class sleeper , where he was given the top bunk . |
10 | His practical training started at his father 's mill , where he was given a lathe and built small working steam engines . |
11 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
12 | At a purely practical level , the anarchist and socialist press provided a forum for the dissemination of information about the October revolution , where it was given an enthusiastic reception . |
13 | Perversely , a settlement which is seen as having been the subject of more bitter dispute may persuade voters that nothing was given away too lightly . |
14 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
15 | er Mr talked about the figures , I 'm convinced that the figures that , that I was given still include Perzon House I 'm convinced that those figures were not , have not been taken out erm I do n't know who should audit the figures , perhaps the internal audit should audit the figures . |
16 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
17 | Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness . |
18 | Right , the trouble i the problem that we do have is a very big syllabus that I was given . |
19 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
20 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
21 | the work that I was giving him |
22 | We 've just finished the first round of waivers for people receiving the Home Care Service , and the criteria that I was giving you reflected those , and so when you get your letter , if you feel that you 've got particular financial problems or particular family situations we should take into account , erm then do get in touch with us and we 'll process it and we 'll set out a procedure for you in the letter that we send . |
23 | So I went to the council , I did n't know anything about social security , even that there was such a thing , so I was given benefit and a hostel to stay in at Elephant and Castle . |
24 | ‘ There is a tradition in the company that the newest family member to join gets the least exciting part , so I was given Africa . ’ |
25 | 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 . |
26 | In fact , the mother 's request to attend the initial case conference had been refused although she was given an opportunity to make written representations . |
27 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |
28 | Chrissie admitted that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claimed that she was given them by Fred — , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short-handed . |
29 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
30 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |