Example sentences of "and [pron] have [been] given a " in BNC.

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1 My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet .
2 I am disabled with arthritis and I have been given a Singer KE2400 , the green one .
3 The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest .
4 They were beautiful , these AndalucĂ­an horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert .
5 In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant .
6 And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs .
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