Example sentences of "we [was/were] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , we were given the green light — unfortunately , poor Molly was accidentally stepped on a couple of times . |
| 2 | One year , we were given an increase of 40p a week on our state pension . |
| 3 | We were given some opportunity to explore this when making three visits to police stations in West Belfast , although the data on community policing are unsatisfactory because of the limited number of these contacts and the absence of supportive observational material . |
| 4 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 5 | We were given three weeks to make ready and our curiosity was heightened when four American cypher sergeants from Headquarters Squadron , Middle East US Forces , were attached to our unit . |
| 6 | We were given a sales territory . |
| 7 | Imprisonment and becoming refugees had affected us badly and we needed the support we were given . |
| 8 | We were given an assiette composee of smoked salmon , pate de campagne , melon , avocado , and crudites , and the fausses rillettes of fresh and smoked salmon with chives , egg yolk , yogurt and lemon juice . |
| 9 | Information on crofting income is limited , but we were given data for two examples , which we were warned are not typical . |
| 10 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 11 | First of all we were given a demonstration . |
| 12 | We wanted both detailed accounts and subjective interpretations , and we were given both . |
| 13 | When I was at school , we were given spellings to learn every day and were allowed to get two out of ten wrong . |
| 14 | Throughout the course we were given tests to help us analyse our weaknesses as listeners . |
| 15 | When preparations for the desert were under way , we were given another child , four-month-old Sam . |
| 16 | We were given humour to discern our own ridiculous airs and pomposities , and it is even valuable in the transcendent lest we lose ourselves in arrogance and pride and stray far from the real beauty of life . |
| 17 | Toward the end of the year , we were given a holiday on a Thursday because the school was being used as a polling station for the General Election . |
| 18 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 19 | The canoes had to be carried across and put in on the other side of the dam , then we were given , mini lesson on the art of canoeing in swift water . |
| 20 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 21 | We were given crêpe paper to make hats , lanterns and crackers , and Mrs Archer would provide us with a sweet or a nut to put in the cracker . |
| 22 | A little later Speedbird 486B did us the flavour of relaying our intentions to Bilbao , and we were given a routing via the standard reporting points November One and November and holds while the British Airways flight landed there . |
| 23 | That 's where we were given these rosettes ; on the bus . |
| 24 | We were given thirty days to come up with our designs . |
| 25 | We were given to understand that the A.S.R. boats did not put out on the express orders of the A.O.C. that they would be too vulnerable to air attack . |
| 26 | When the time came , I can not say that we followed all of the advice we were given . |
| 27 | We were given a thorough training in reading and spelling , in writing and arithmetic , with a weekly lesson in history , geography , nature study and drawing . |
| 28 | Two weeks ago we were given hand brushes to dust the machines in front of us . |
| 29 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 30 | ‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ . |