Example sentences of "he was give [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He was given a three-year driving ban .
2 Mr Justice Saville said the Commercial Court was a part of the Queen 's Bench and he would not exclude observers unless he was given a good reason to do so .
3 He was given a ballooning operation , one of 300 performed at Bart 's this year , to widen the arteries to his heart .
4 English cases are few , but a threat to get back money owing to the accused falls within s.34(2) ( a ) ( i ) : Parkes [ 1973 ] Crim LR 358 ; and a threat by a person suffering from osteoarthritis to a doctor that he would shoot him unless he was given a pain- killing injection was held to be blackmail in Bevans ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 64 ( CA ) , a decision which extends blackmail beyond being a property offence .
5 He was given a key and left to find his own way up two flights of stairs .
6 He was given a two-year suspended sentence .
7 Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft .
8 That it was the wrong remedy was discovered later when he was given a higher potency which helped the eczema but made the asthma worse .
9 THE family of jailed Briton Michael Wainwright were stunned last night after he was given a 10-year sentence in Iraq .
10 But Colin French now facing the prospect of jail … because last November he was given a six month prison sentence suspended for two years .
11 He was given a six months sentence , suspended for three years .
12 He was given a great welcome by the waiters and Jane was introduced to the Maître in person .
13 He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious .
14 He was given a small part in a film and one of his fellow extras was Harold Lloyd .
15 Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it .
16 Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn .
17 When the day came , Grégoire was carefully prepared : he was given a new haircut ; George himself supervised his washing procedure , which was inclined to be haphazard .
18 He was given a new two-year contract in March .
19 A man has made medical history by having four organ transplants.In two operations he was given a new heart , two lungs and a kidney.It was the first time in Europe so many organs had been replaced successfully.Richard Barnett reports :
20 He was given a 15-day prison sentence which was suspended on the provision that he paid £2.50-a-week off his debt to the council .
21 He was given a conditional discharge .
22 He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months .
23 He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months .
24 This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily .
25 He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome .
26 He was given a rapturous reception by a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 when the result was announced shortly after midnight .
27 In the event , he was given a 40-akce medrese , from which he rose by degrees through the medreses and the mevleviyets eventually to hold the office of kazasker of Rumeli from 954/1547 to 958/1551 .
28 In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf .
29 Sainteny tried to persuade them to accept French fighters in their advance , but he was given a brush-off .
30 He was given a twenty-five year sentence , eighteen years ago .
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