Example sentences of "[vb past] given to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 2 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 3 | It was divided into two parts , her own list of household requirements , and the list that Isabel had given to her , which read : |
| 4 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 5 | In 195 B.C. Lampsacus registered the help which her Phocaean sister-city Massalia had given to her , not only at Rome , but also in relations with the Celts of Asiatic Galatia ( Dittenberger , Sylli. 591 ) . |
| 6 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 7 | I mean we had given to us our friends , mad on radios |