Example sentences of "[was/were] give away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now British TV licences were given away free , mostly to firms headed by establishment figures . |
| 2 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 3 | They were given away free . |
| 4 | In the late fifth-century Babylonian satrapy ‘ bow land ’ and ‘ chariot land ’ were given away on condition that the owners for the time being paid for soldiers or cavalry . |
| 5 | Mr Brownlow bought him a new suit and new shoes , and Oliver 's dirty old clothes were given away . |
| 6 | Brides were given away . |
| 7 | Various detector companies sent donations of gift which were given away at all three fetes . |
| 8 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 9 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 10 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 11 | In fact , you probably needed some barrels , and I 'm sure or were given away . |
| 12 | The auctioneer says they can fetch up to £20,000 , not bad when they were given away free originally . |
| 13 | All too popular with passing children at the show , the balloons were given away in return for a small donation to the Sports Council . |
| 14 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 15 | No , the problem was banks were giving away their commissions to investors as inducements to buy expensively-priced bonds , the result of new issues arranged by banks desperate to maintain market share . |
| 16 | Well , I suppose it was an emerald under all that flour — either that or the millers were giving away some expensive free gifts these days . |
| 17 | The bride , who was given away by her step-father , wore a full-length satin and lace dress with train , embroidered with pearls and sequins , and lace edged veil held in place with pearl headdress . |
| 18 | The bride , who was given away by her father , wore an Elizabethan-style dress , in cream silk , with a train with tiny pearls edging the dress and decorating the sleeves . |
| 19 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 20 | An old man , flab hoisted by plastiskin into the semblance of youthful buttocks and belly , strolled past in a scanty g-string but the game was given away by the static pads of fake muscle that did n't even twitch as he walked . |
| 21 | Esso devised a petrol sales promotion scheme whereby a World Cup coin was given away at Esso petrol stations with every four gallons of petrol purchased . |
| 22 | Land was given away and there were tax incentives to exploit the area , though increasingly it was large-ranching projects and multinational interests that took more and more land . |
| 23 | Perversely , a settlement which is seen as having been the subject of more bitter dispute may persuade voters that nothing was given away too lightly . |
| 24 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 25 | Mach glanced at DeVore , conscious of how much he was giving away simply by talking in front of him , but he 'd had no choice . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) said that VAT should be increased : I suspect that he was giving away a secret Tory agenda . |
| 27 | And anyway , I was giving away at least fifty pounds . |
| 28 | If Nevil did come back , even if he was giving away religious tracts , she 'd castrate him before the doorbell had stopped ringing . |