Example sentences of "they had [be] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 2 | They had been given a meal there but had refused to stay overnight . |
| 3 | They had been given a family room , from which Monsieur Gauthier had obligingly removed one of the three single beds in order to provide the space Iris required for her daily yoga session . |
| 4 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 5 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 6 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 7 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 8 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |