Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] given [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
2 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
3 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
4 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
5 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
6 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
7 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
8 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
9 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
10 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |
15 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
16 | Noel Koch was the deputy assistant for international security affairs at the Defense Department when North was at the NSC ; he had been given a code-name , and it was ‘ Aaron ’ . |
17 | He had been given a list of Extension Centres marked ‘ active ’ or ‘ dormant ’ to ensure there would be no misinterpretation over his activities within the constraints of the document . |
18 | Mr Major said he had been given a report on the particular material that was on show in a Commons committee room . |
19 | He had been given a name . |
20 | By supporting their own candidates , they were challenging Baldwin 's authority and leadership even though he had been given a vote of confidence by the Party in 1931 . |
21 | He had been given a lift to the Bayswater Road by a mutual friend , Derek O'Connor . |
22 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
23 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |
24 | A few days ago , some hooligan or other walked into our bedroom , mine and Jane 's — and lifted " Suddenly , as the thought struck him , he jerked back in his chair , as if he had been given a minor electric shock , and stared at Alice , his jaw literally dropping . |
25 | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end , but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds . |
26 | He had been given a rifle and Ivan taught him how to shoot . |
27 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
28 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
29 | He had been given a lesson from a great player and it was obvious that it was one he would never forget . ’ |
30 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |