Example sentences of "i [be] give the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I was given the job of going to fetch the agent , but Dad offered to go and so I went with him .
8 As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days .
9 I was given the taste for bigger journalism .
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