Example sentences of "had [been] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told he had been given every opportunity to pay , and was jailed for 32 days . |
| 2 | He said that he had been given no information about the departure and even late yesterday , had been unable to reach government officials responsible for refugee matters . |
| 3 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 4 | Compelled , absolved , she had been given no choice . |
| 5 | Scandinavia had had even less success in the numerous discussions on a customs union , and the topic had been given no priority in the plans of the Nordic Council . |
| 6 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 7 | Lord Derby complained that he had been given no warnings . |
| 8 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 9 | Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point . |
| 10 | The caller also was extremely annoyed that calls relating to valuation matters were being passed to her but Media Action had been given no alternative numbers to filter these calls to . |
| 11 | Ms Wilikins did not look too happy with the question for which she had been given no prior notice . |
| 12 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 13 | Laura had been given no time to mourn the collapse of her brief marriage . |
| 14 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 15 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 16 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 17 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 18 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 19 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 20 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 21 | Charles had been given a view of the plans some months before and had been appalled . |
| 22 | Then the Bank revealed that its governor had been given a 17% salary rise last year . |
| 23 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |
| 24 | As they approached the village , Mungo felt a little like a prisoner who had been given a taste of freedom . |
| 25 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Reagan 's suite had been given a special phone number for the occasion , but the postmistress did n't believe in such nonsense . |
| 28 | Mr Bonfield also disclosed that , following initial hostility , ICL had been given a role in the European Community 's advanced communications programme after reassuring critics that the technology flow with Fujitsu would be two-way . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Modernised ’ in 1937 by architect William Ross , the charm that had survived Jacobites , Weaver 's revolts , football fracas , and the decline of Empire , had been given a chic exterior of faience and rustic brickwork . |