Example sentences of "[vb past] been given a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 2 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 3 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 6 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 7 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 8 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 12 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 13 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 14 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 15 | He had been given a name . |
| 16 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 17 | She had been given a chance of survival . |
| 18 | It would have helped him if the two most awkward customers in the political equation — Sinn Fein and the DUP — had been given a drubbing by the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists respectively . |
| 19 | That town had been given a face-lift . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 22 | Earlier in 1959 , Yulo Tsering had been given a life sentence for taking part in the Tibetan revolution of that year . |
| 23 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |
| 24 | On the back seat … a fourteen-year-old boy from Milton Keynes , who just the day before had been given a supervision order after being convicted for burglary , armed robbery and car theft . |
| 25 | The bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty had been given a second reading on May 21 [ see p. 38931 ] but its further consideration had been suspended on June 3 in the light of the negative Danish referendum vote on ratification [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Jonathan described to the court how in August 1991 he had been given a blackcurrant drink made by Allitt . |
| 30 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |