Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [been] given a " in BNC.

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1 Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present .
2 I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right .
3 But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service .
4 Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before .
5 As they approached the village , Mungo felt a little like a prisoner who had been given a taste of freedom .
6 In Malette v. Shulman , 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 a Canadian court upheld an award of $20,000 to a patient who had been given a blood transfusion in order to save her life but against her known wishes .
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