Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] give [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The replies to this question were interesting and were given with no prompting .
2 The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose .
3 Bede tells the story that , so backward were the heathen South Saxons that although a maritime race , they did not know how to fish and were given to mass suicides from convenient cliffs when the corn harvest failed after a terrible drought .
4 Could I just remind members of the board of the next two meetings which are at the bottom of the er a a agenda and were given to you previously of course .
5 Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers .
6 The object of this latest project is Palermo Cathedral 's Chiaramonte crucifix , which dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and was given to the cathedral in 1311 by Manfredo Chiaramonte .
7 The book had arrived on Lehmann 's desk unsolicited , an unprepossessing bundle of grubby typescript , and was given to Julia Strachey , then working as one of his readers .
8 The old loom , it 's exact age unknown , is no longer of any commercial value and was given to the museum at the request of their Curator for Engineering and industry .
9 But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem .
10 The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 .
11 When I met the mother she was extremely depressed verging on suicidal and was given by the workers at the clinic a new sari to try and cheer her up .
12 It is by Bartholomaus Cades , a Wurttemberg sculptor who worked in Baden , and was given by a town councillor of the Dorer family in 1630 .
13 The cimetidine was replenished every day and was given from day 0 to the end of the experiment .
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