Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been give " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 2 | Sir Gregory had been given back much of his estate during Mary 's short reign , and his Catholicism , while viewed askance by some of the villagers , was in general tolerated . |
| 3 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 4 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 5 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 6 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 7 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 8 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 9 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 10 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 11 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 12 | Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown . |
| 13 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 14 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 15 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 16 | As he fielded questions at a press conference in his Yeovil constituency about his terms for a coalition in the event of a hung Parliament or whether Downing Street had been given his telephone number , the instrument that could receive the crucial call was being hunted down by aides . |
| 17 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 18 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 19 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 20 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 21 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 22 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Finkelstein had been given the contract to paint the interior of the convent . |
| 24 | Erm in short Adam had been given erm lordship over the earth and all its creatures and with that he 'd been given lordship over all human beings and the kings of this earth have inherited that lordship , that dominion . |
| 25 | I retraced my steps to the square where Kennedy had been given the Freedom of the City ( an empty honour ) , and explored a network of narrow shopping streets . |
| 26 | Presumably Mr Malik had been giving her tutorials . |
| 27 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 28 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 29 | A fortnight after the production of Giasone , another opera with a libretto by Cicognini had been given at the opening of yet another Venetian opera-house , Santi Apostoli . |
| 30 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |