Example sentences of "be give his [det] " in BNC.

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1 Another new boy , Nick Raynsford , has been given his own single room — an extremely prized possession , even among long-serving MPs — on the shadow cabinet corridor .
2 And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train .
3 Off stage , he 's not exactly full of the joys of life either , despite being the latest comic to be given his own Channel 4 series .
4 The pupil can be given his own strategy to follow which will help him to learn .
5 Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest .
6 Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter .
7 But I , I had no idea that he then had to be that , being given his own funding , he then had to be organized by a committee .
8 If a pianist is particularly charming and quite gifted , his failure to win the competition need not trouble him ; money is raised privately among local citizens , and he is given his own Carnegie Hall recital , perhaps , or his own scholarship to the Conservatoire in Paris , with a living allowance to provide for ‘ a minimally decent standard of living ’ — a phrase used in Forth Worth to describe what British people might call an upper middle-class lifestyle .
9 David Mellor , Treasury Chief Secretary , who also took a front-line role in exposing Labour 's tax and spending plans , was given his own department , in charge of National Heritage — including arts , sports , broadcasting and the national lottery .
10 When the German war ended he was given his own section trying to break Albanian cypher .
11 From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison .
12 He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker .
13 It would be hard to fault anything they did and although the unit bears the fiddle player 's name , every member of the band was given his own chance to add a little something to the songs under Pierre 's subtle method of musical direction .
14 Mr Perot , as the guest on at least one night-time TV show , was to give his own public verdict on Mr Clinton 's speech .
15 Crawford was giving his all to the show .
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