Example sentences of "was given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali Idrissi Kaitouni was given a 15-year sentence for writing poems about social injustice and political oppression in Morocco , deemed by the state to constitute a crime against internal security . |
| 2 | I remember dark , solemn and suspicious looks , as a travelling family was given tea in the back-garden of a house in the country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 7 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 8 | Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering . |
| 9 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 10 | His request was refused in a written memo from HQ , but no reason was given . |
| 11 | My only training and instruction for the job was given by a detective chief inspector , who told us to ‘ get out there and lock up thieves ’ . |
| 12 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 13 | Mid-thirties and Jay was given to Falling in Love . |
| 14 | Jay was given to grandiloquent rambling , and had to check herself . |
| 15 | Alone , she was given to melodramatic sonnet sequences and masturbation . |
| 16 | So Leonard was given his secular names ( Leonard Norman ) at the Sabbath on which his mother first attended synagogue , and his Hebrew name , Elieser ( ‘ God is my help ’ ) at the circumcision-ceremony itself . |
| 17 | Scant consideration was given to getting the authors ' names or initials , or even their book titles , correct ! ) : |
| 18 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 19 | Some of these escapades upset Mrs Cohen , who was given to ‘ flying off the handle , ’ in Rosengarten 's phrase . |
| 20 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 21 | No preparation was given ( me ) for the religious vision . |
| 22 | A recollection of their work was given by Layton in an interview for the Canadian Theatre Revue in 1977 , in the wake of A Man Was Killed , the first play to be written by them , but tardily presented . |
| 23 | ‘ The Name ’ has been the Holy of Holies to all Jews since it was given to Moses as a special revelation of the divine essence ; all other holinesses merely subserve it . |
| 24 | In the event she cycled much further , because she was given directions in the village to a riding stable . |
| 25 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |
| 26 | Yet , long after the North East had lost its separate region , on 4 April 1988 East Anglia was given independence . |
| 27 | Keg was given massive promotion and the success of such brands as Double Diamond and Worthington E was forcing independent brewers to switch to keg production too . |
| 28 | When the first CAMRA annual meeting was held in 1972 the event was given wide media coverage and thousands flocked to join the new organisation . |
| 29 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 30 | We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes . |