Example sentences of "[pers pn] was give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 2 | From what I was given on him it was very easy to construct something from his guilt , his sense of self-degradation . |
| 3 | At lunch-times , I was given to mental lapses . |
| 4 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 5 | no , I do n't know where that tool is I was given for Christmas its gone |
| 6 | I was given into the charge of an N.C.O. |
| 7 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 8 | But , as I have said , the impression I was given in 1944 by three officers of the S.A.S. was that Leslie and his men had been dropped , and that only the plane itself had not returned . |
| 9 | Can and do , she thought , ever since that September of two years ago , before I was given in marriage , when Owen fired Ruthyn , and his men plundered Oswestry and Welshpool , and the king came storming through here and across the border with all his army , but never found any enemy to fight . |
| 10 | does anybody remember particularly what they were given , or make a great deal about it , of a meal of it , unless you 've given them something absolutely outstanding like a fur coat , I remember the fur coat I was given in |
| 11 | Now the baby is in foster care and the mother has responded well to treatment she was given at the hospital . |
| 12 | Alone , she was given to melodramatic sonnet sequences and masturbation . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the homemaking did not include harmony , for she was given to moods . |
| 14 | She was given to religion ; to quotations from the Bible . |
| 15 | She was given to playing with words in that way . |
| 16 | At the Colony Room she herself provided dramatic focus for , perched perennially on a bar stool , she was given to unrelenting abuse . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Forty years later , just such a hawk-moth was discovered and to commemorate Darwin 's prescience , it was given as part of its scientific name the words forma predicta . |
| 21 | It was given as a personal gift to Tran Van Lung by the father of the present emperor , Khai Dinh . " |
| 22 | It was given as an example of how design errors and omissions can push up the cost of road contracts . |
| 23 | But then the property was not given to her ; it was given on the face of it to the trustee . |
| 24 | As for the promise to ban fox-hunting , it was given with such a blithe nonchalance as to be spine-chilling . |
| 25 | Again , in his biography of Molla Mustafa Sarukhani ( Ak Musli : d. 1016/1608 ) , Ata'i says that the subject , while in retirement from a 40-akce medrese , was in 994/1585–6 given the muftilik of Agras " with [ an ] stipulation and rank " is ambiguous , however , since it could conceivably mean not that the medrese was to be considered as but that it was given with the stipulation that the muderris should receive an medrese in due course ) . |
| 26 | It was given at the launching of what was Britain 's largest liner at the time , the S.S. Aquitania . |
| 27 | Now then you was put on Premeren it was given at the hospital , was n't it ? |
| 28 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |
| 29 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 30 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |