Example sentences of "he [verb] been given [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 2 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 3 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 4 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 5 | He 'd been given a position in prison administration in Paris , and Sylvia thought he might be of help to her in finding Madeleine and Jeanne . |
| 6 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 7 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 8 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 9 | He had been given a name . |
| 10 | Jonathan described to the court how in August 1991 he had been given a blackcurrant drink made by Allitt . |
| 11 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |
| 12 | Noel Koch was the deputy assistant for international security affairs at the Defense Department when North was at the NSC ; he had been given a code-name , and it was ‘ Aaron ’ . |
| 13 | He had been given a lesson from a great player and it was obvious that it was one he would never forget . ’ |
| 14 | He had been given a lift to the Bayswater Road by a mutual friend , Derek O'Connor . |
| 15 | By supporting their own candidates , they were challenging Baldwin 's authority and leadership even though he had been given a vote of confidence by the Party in 1931 . |
| 16 | Mr Major said he had been given a report on the particular material that was on show in a Commons committee room . |
| 17 | He had been given a list of Extension Centres marked ‘ active ’ or ‘ dormant ’ to ensure there would be no misinterpretation over his activities within the constraints of the document . |
| 18 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 19 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 20 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
| 21 | He had been given a rifle and Ivan taught him how to shoot . |
| 22 | He said that he had been given no information about the departure and even late yesterday , had been unable to reach government officials responsible for refugee matters . |
| 23 | He was told he had been given every opportunity to pay , and was jailed for 32 days . |
| 24 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 25 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 26 | Having written a fairly scathing account of this approach in draft , I sent it to John Austin Baker ( as I have also sent my account of their work to Christian feminists whom I discuss in this book for comment ) only to receive a delightful letter from him which rescinded much that he had written , explained that he had been given the title , and essentially agreed with my criticism ! |
| 27 | Harry 's great merit was that , once he had been given the ball , he was a speedy and direct raider . |
| 28 | He had been given the opportunity to resign , but declined , and was then suspended , after which the matter had been reported to the Minister of Health , who subsequently consented to his dismissal . |
| 29 | But chairman Tony Lewis denied last night he had been given the boot . |
| 30 | Through his active involvement in European institutions — serving , for example , as president of both the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the OEEC — he had been given the accolade of being ‘ Mr Europe ’ . |