Example sentences of "was granted [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middleton was granted £100 to enable him to furnish his house . |
| 2 | Thorsen , of Grimstad , Norway , was granted £100,000 bail until June 18 . |
| 3 | On 10 October 1366 he was granted £6 13s. 4d. a year for life on account of his long service and a small house by the palace for keeping his tools and moulds , and in 1368 and 1370 he had grants of the pesage of wools at Queenborough , Kent . |
| 4 | When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards . |
| 5 | Widow Mansfield , for example , was granted 3s. medical relief for ‘ bad eyes ’ , John Treadwell had 2s.6d because his two children were ill , and William Ames was allowed 5s. on account of his wife 's lying-in . |
| 6 | Towards the end of 1849 Gurney wrote to the Goldsmiths to request £200 " to enable him to clear off his debts and leave some money for general purposes " ; he was granted £300 . |
| 7 | After 1496 Henry resorted to Parliament only once , in 1504 , when he was granted £30,000 as an aid for the knighting of his eldest son — by then dead — and the marriage of his elder daughter . |
| 8 | Mrs. Davey , whose husband had been an agent for a good many years on £16:0s.:0d. per month was granted £16 : 12s. : 8d. upon his death in 1847 . |
| 9 | Bishop Proudie , the old man 's successor , was granted £5,000 — and this was in 1857 . |
| 10 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 11 | Sir William Montague , who was the king 's chief supporter and evidently the leader of the group , was granted £1,000-worth of land because he ‘ had nobly laboured ’ in arresting Mortimer ; the £1,000 included the Mortimer lordship of Denbigh . |