Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
| 2 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 3 | Privately Owen intended to make sure that she was given a very strong briefing beforehand . |
| 4 | The most important complaint is that we were given no information . |
| 5 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 6 | So much so , indeed , that they were given the task of overseeing the Minor side this year . |
| 7 | The company argued that it was given a stay of execution by other bankers even though it had defaulted on loans connected with its American Heileman brewing operations . |
| 8 | In fact , its success was such that it was given the ‘ unique honour ’ of being made the secretariat to the Intergroup on Animal Welfare — an all-party committee which discusses welfare issues . |
| 9 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
| 10 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 11 | He claimed that the commander of Silvan Gendarmerie Post proposed to him , with a combination of threats and bribes , that he should assassinate Mehmet Menge , Diyarbakir SHP ( Social Democratic Populiats Party ) Board Member , and that he was given a Kalashnikov rifle and hand grenades . |
| 12 | The success of Peter Medd. an Old Boy and son of one of the Visitors , in gaining a First Class Honours degree at Oxford so pleased the Goldsmiths that he was given a prize of £20 and the School an extra week 's holiday that summer . |
| 13 | Striker Steve White also told the court that he was given a £5,000 signing-on fee . |
| 14 | The same chap also revealed that he was given the nickname Colonel because he was so self-important . ’ |