Example sentences of "[noun] i [be] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 2 | In his memoirs , O'Neill offers an unconvincing explanation for this major concession ; ‘ I was fully aware of the advantage I was giving the Republicans as all the votes would take place well within the new president 's honeymoon period . |
| 3 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
| 4 | For my birthday in February I was given a good quality ‘ used ’ rowing boat . |
| 5 | As a boy I was given a little patch of our garden to cultivate . |
| 6 | As a child I was given a grey plastic gun as a birthday present . |
| 7 | Once after I had recited at the Guild I was given a pair of woollen gloves , speckled coloured , and with cuffs , which was quite an unexpected treat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park . |
| 12 | After a few months as a general news reporter I was given a wider range of assignments and when Jim Miller left , my regular beats included the monthly School Board meetings and the daily Police Court and High Court sessions . |
| 13 | For the first offence I was given a fine . |
| 14 | On the second offence I was given a suspended sentence . |
| 15 | Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering . |
| 16 | I C I was given the unfortunate impression with management more interested in running a big chemical company than in maximizing shareholder returns . |
| 17 | As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days . |