Example sentences of "i [was/were] give the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were given the chance . |
| 2 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 3 | Finally I was given the go ahead and everything could be resealed . |
| 4 | Well i it it meant er Monday mornings you went out , you were given er an area in the town , and I was given the money area , as I termed it , Road and that . |
| 5 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 6 | While I was trying to develop this approach to meaning , I was given the opportunity to spend a year in the U.S.A. as a Harkness fellow ( 1964–1965 ) . |
| 7 | Thanks to McAlpine Helicopters , the Aerospatiale helicopter distributor for the UK , I was given the chance to join the PPL rotor wing elite … if only for the day . |
| 8 | My function was to select and train the Pathfinders , I was given the choice of what I claim was the best and if I did not pick the best . |
| 9 | I was given the address and telephone number of Iona Community House . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 12 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 13 | I was given the task of preparing a document , which was adopted without opposition in March 1991 by all nine nations and all four political parties . |
| 14 | I was given the news last midnight and methought I would drown in the sorrow of my tears ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was given the information , ’ he told her , ‘ by a young man who 's horrified by what his brother has become because of drugs . |
| 16 | I was given the bosun 's cabin to sleep in . |
| 17 | Finally I was given the number , but not the code for Guildford , connection being broken before I could ask for it . |
| 18 | I was given the job of going to fetch the agent , but Dad offered to go and so I went with him . |
| 19 | As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All very ordinary , but I was given the impression that somehow we were just that little bit better than the other families in our street . |
| 22 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 23 | I was given the taste for bigger journalism . |
| 24 | I was giving the chimney a quick sweep . |
| 25 | You know when I was giving the introduction I talked about targeting , studying and so forth . |