Example sentences of "'d [been] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 2 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 3 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 4 | The cab stopped at the street intersection he 'd been given , his passenger paid him , took time drawing on his gloves until the cab was gone . |
| 5 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 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 | They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations . |
| 8 | After that , I went upstairs to read the hand-outs we 'd been given . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 10 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 11 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 12 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 13 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 14 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 15 | While she was away , she made a quick phone call to the British Intelligence number she 'd been given . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 18 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At 6 o'clock I dialled the telephone number I 'd been given ‘ for emergencies only ’ . |
| 21 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 22 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 23 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The task she 'd been given was quite unachievable . |
| 26 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 27 | Following the directions she 'd been given , Shannon came to the theatre stage door a few minutes later . |
| 28 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 29 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 30 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |