Example sentences of "[conj] was given [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But if they died , there was a very young family , a young wife , needing financial independence that was given to them by you , with a life insurance policy . |
2 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
3 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
4 | There 's also a big , gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother . |
5 | ‘ Being a hijra was the only possibility for me ; there was no other career I could have pursued with the body that was given to me at birth . |
6 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
7 | First of all I 'm surprised at the outburst that was given to us by Mr I would regard as my er yahabeebee and sadiki if you wish er , but he mentioned in fact the er , what used to be barbaric ac , barbaric er practice in er Pakistan . |
8 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
9 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |