Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His practical training started at his father 's mill , where he was given a lathe and built small working steam engines . |
| 7 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 8 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 9 | Privately Owen intended to make sure that she was given a very strong briefing beforehand . |
| 10 | The Swans are playing some outstanding rugby these days and , although they were given a hard time of it against Dunvant in the last round , it is always difficult to combat gritty opponents who feel they have nothing to lose . |
| 11 | The company argued that it was given a stay of execution by other bankers even though it had defaulted on loans connected with its American Heileman brewing operations . |
| 12 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 13 | He claimed that the commander of Silvan Gendarmerie Post proposed to him , with a combination of threats and bribes , that he should assassinate Mehmet Menge , Diyarbakir SHP ( Social Democratic Populiats Party ) Board Member , and that he was given a Kalashnikov rifle and hand grenades . |
| 14 | The success of Peter Medd. an Old Boy and son of one of the Visitors , in gaining a First Class Honours degree at Oxford so pleased the Goldsmiths that he was given a prize of £20 and the School an extra week 's holiday that summer . |
| 15 | Striker Steve White also told the court that he was given a £5,000 signing-on fee . |
| 16 | Environmentalists have supported the miners against Pittston strip-mining and long-wall techniques , and I was given a badge which proclaimed ‘ I 'm Pro-Union and Pro-Choice ’ , linking the strike with the most inflammable issue in US politics today , abortion rights . |
| 17 | Details of the flight with map references , operating heights , times and working radius around a point were agreed , and I was given a reference number for future contacts . |
| 18 | Although I was shackled to a radiator , my blindfold was removed and I was given a cup of water and a sweetmeat . |
| 19 | You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done . |
| 20 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 21 | And you was given a time to go in to sign on . |
| 22 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 23 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 24 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 25 | A little later Speedbird 486B did us the flavour of relaying our intentions to Bilbao , and we were given a routing via the standard reporting points November One and November and holds while the British Airways flight landed there . |
| 26 | The funeral feast was under way and we were given a quantity of meat . |
| 27 | ‘ If we were given a clean opportunity , the job of turning Linford into a millionaire would be a breeze . |
| 28 | At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit . |
| 29 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 30 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |