Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 2 | They , they were probably given to them secondhand an'all |
| 3 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 4 | Some children had received a laxative , and when given , it was either given in minimal dose or given for too short a time . |
| 5 | Reports indicated , however , that as in the 1992 budget [ see p. 38211 where it was wrongly given as the 1991 budget ; for 1991 budget see p. 38072 ] , there was special emphasis on the reconstruction of the country 's social , economic and industrial infrastructure . |
| 6 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 7 | He was much given to quoting that wonderful phrase to describe the endless battle between man and nature : ‘ the mild continuous epic of the soil ’ . |
| 8 | He was much given to questions and hilarity . |