Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] given three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously if if you the normal rule of thumb , as I 'm led to believe , is that if you buy a used a vehicle from a used car dealer , you 're given three months , three thousand miles , in which you can you can take complaints back . |
| 2 | If you were given three hours to collect your thoughts and write it down , you 'd all d excuse me , hello , right . |
| 3 | She was given three years ' supervision and a five-year driving ban . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 6 | They were given three large doses of vitamin A over a week , and received vitamin A in all subsequent survey rounds . |
| 7 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 8 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |
| 9 | He was given three penalty points and ordered to pay £15 towards prosecution costs . |
| 10 | While in hospital , in order to stem the agonising pain , he was given three or four shots of Demerol a day . |