Example sentences of "she [be] given [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 2 | Now the baby is in foster care and the mother has responded well to treatment she was given at the hospital . |
| 3 | Alone , she was given to melodramatic sonnet sequences and masturbation . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the homemaking did not include harmony , for she was given to moods . |
| 5 | She was given to religion ; to quotations from the Bible . |
| 6 | She was given to playing with words in that way . |
| 7 | At the Colony Room she herself provided dramatic focus for , perched perennially on a bar stool , she was given to unrelenting abuse . |
| 8 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 9 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 10 | Mrs Fellows , admitted for an operation on her varicose veins , is adequately hydrated and has been following the dietary advice she was given in the Outpatient Clinic and has managed to lose some weight . |