Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | My interest in MacDonald began when I was given a well-worn copy of his Unspoken Sermons . |
| 2 | In my early twenties I found that I would become aggressive when I was given a compliment . |
| 3 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 4 | ‘ When I was given it I believed it came from Barbara Coleman . |
| 5 | laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare . |
| 6 | He had met her previously when she was given a similarly small part in Hell 's Angels on Wheels and now they were both unattached and deeply attracted to one another . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The indicated remedy appeared to be spigelia , but when she was given this she developed palpitations and became quite anxious . |
| 9 | China ( cinchona ) is a remedy which is indicated in this situation , and when she was given it , she rapidly regained her energy and vitality . |
| 10 | The thrust of The Enquirer 's story is that the final straw for Diana came when she was given a transcript of the alleged taped conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles . |
| 11 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 12 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 13 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 14 | She certainly seemed to thrive on responsibility when she was given it . |
| 15 | A simple X-ray spotted an inch-long needle left in the 56-year-old mum 's bottom when she was giving birth to her daughter , Jane , in Rotherham , Yorks . |
| 16 | Mummy dropped it when she was giving it to me . |
| 17 | However , the crew helped us aboard and I soon forgot my fright when we were given bananas to eat . |
| 18 | Actually what we 'll do is we 'll give you Er you 're probably a bit bigger than you were when we were giving you three er on three times a day . |
| 19 | ‘ Just when we were giving up he suggested Emerald and it that makes sense — the Emerald band on the Emerald label . |
| 20 | Also when we was giving this demonstration for the people in Bloxwich for the , our unit in King George 's playing fields , we 'd got all our weaponry on , on , on show what we 'd got Vickers machine gun , the Brownings rifles this anti-tank bomb anti-tank tube , whatever you li gun , whatever you like to call it , but also we 'd got what , what was termed a bucket bomb . |
| 21 | When they were given to patients with high blood pressure , the immediate results were encouraging . |
| 22 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 23 | For example , in Pavlov 's classical experiments , hungry dogs heard music when they were given food . |
| 24 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 25 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 27 | None of the 5HT antagonists or the 5HT 4 agonist , SC53116 , significantly altered ICJ transit when they were given ip during ia infusion of saline ( Table II ) . |
| 28 | The auctioneer says they can fetch up to £20,000 , not bad when they were given away free originally . |
| 29 | ‘ Whereas we had a comfortable semi-final win on Saturday , Powerhouse were forced to show their hand when they were given such a hard match by Jets in their semi-final , ’ said Stokes , who was an interested spectator . |
| 30 | And they used to call on when they were giving the turns to go there and load . |