Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [be] give [art] " in BNC.

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1 My interest in MacDonald began when I was given a well-worn copy of his Unspoken Sermons .
2 In my early twenties I found that I would become aggressive when I was given a compliment .
3 The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it .
4 The problems came later , when you are given an exam paper : twenty questions to be answered within one hour ten minutes .
5 When you are giving a dog a bath for the first time , it may be helpful to have someone else to help you .
6 He had met her previously when she was given a similarly small part in Hell 's Angels on Wheels and now they were both unattached and deeply attracted to one another .
7 The thrust of The Enquirer 's story is that the final straw for Diana came when she was given a transcript of the alleged taped conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles .
8 STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video .
9 When we 're given the price tag , eighteen pounds , that 's a different matter .
10 We raffled a car at Christmas in the John Radcliffe and collected everybody 's money , and we did n't have too many qualms of conscience about that , but one 's got to be very careful not to beg from patients , but I think er fun for all , a lottery is fun and we feel perfectly er acceptable towards this very worthwhile project when we 're given the cheque on Monday .
11 When they 're given a chance to do what they joined the fire brigade for . ’
12 No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock
13 When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision .
14 This is a further reason for considering such skills an essential part of the staff nurses ' role rather than as an added extra to be fitted in whenever possible : today 's staff nurses are the ward sisters of tomorrow , and they do not simply pick up teaching skills automatically when they are given a new job title .
15 When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) .
16 And they used to call on when they were giving the turns to go there and load .
17 An honest man , when he 's given the chance to be .
18 That it was the wrong remedy was discovered later when he was given a higher potency which helped the eczema but made the asthma worse .
19 The climax of Delaunay 's success in Germany came when he was given a large one-man show at the Walden Gallery in Berlin early in 1913 ; both Delaunay and Apollinaire travelled to Germany for the opening .
20 When he was given a chance he enjoyed it as much as anyone else .
21 After 54 England Caps , Sir Stanley earned another cap when he was given an honorary doctorate by Keele University .
22 Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike .
23 Twenty-seven years on , in 1977 , he was duly awarded with another request to visit Buckingham Palace when he was given the OBE.
24 again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself
25 ‘ Indeed , ’ he agreed , seeming a little irritated by her interruption , as if , as when he was giving a lecture , he preferred to hold the floor .
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