Example sentences of "[pron] had been give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 2 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 3 | I had been given a week 's leave and so I hurried to Hastings as I felt sure that would be my last leave for some time . |
| 4 | I had been given a week in Sydney before sailing for New Zealand . |
| 5 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 6 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 7 | Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement . |
| 8 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 9 | She had been given a programme credit for making dresses several years before . |
| 10 | After all , she had been given a brain to think with while these patriots were being force-fed The Thoughts of Spiro Agnew , The World According to William F. Buckley and Killing Commies for God and Country . |
| 11 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 12 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 13 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 14 | She had been given a telephone number in France : Cassis 08.79.30 , Les Roches Blanches , a hotel . |
| 15 | They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert . |
| 16 | She had been given a chance of survival . |
| 17 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 18 | As they approached the village , Mungo felt a little like a prisoner who had been given a taste of freedom . |
| 19 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Our neighbour , who had been given a key to check on our house while we had been away , had thoughtfully lit a fire to welcome us home . |
| 22 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After six months Miloš made a ceremonial entry into Belgrade to parley with the newly appointed Turkish governor , Marasli , who had been given a mandate by the sultan to make concessions in order to pacify the Serbs . |
| 28 | In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country . |
| 29 | David , who had been given a piece of her mind , returned sadly to a state of detumescence and made do with David Attenborough who at least was living vicariously . |
| 30 | Next-door neighbour Jean Beveridge , who had been given a running commentary by armed police inside her home , revealed the gunman had been daring the police to shoot him . |