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Example sentences for "been given"

  • Giulio Gatti-Casazza and Andreas Dippel, announced a change of plan in respect of the Saturday night performances which had been given for a number of years.

  • Hearken and listen to the voice of the Lord, O ye who have assembled yourselves together, who are the High Priests of my Church, to whom the kingdom and power have been given.

  • And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That He lives!

  • I got there after the warning had been given.

  • A list of the eruptions of Ætna from the earliest times has been given by several writers.

  • As I gained the top of Nob Hill and turned to look back, it was clear why the warning had been given.

  • When the time came, when he saw his daughter in the morning after the notice had been given, he could not bring himself even yet to say to her that he had issued an order for his banishment.

  • The money had, in truth, been given away to a relation of the Duke's by the joint consent of the lady and of the Duke himself, but the Duchess was pleased to refer to it occasionally as a still existing property.

  • If so, she would hear it, and would then have an opportunity of telling him that her heart had been given entirely to another.

  • Happily, our security is more amply provided for; it results from the command which has been given us over the sword and the purse of the Union.

  • He did know that he had blundered about it most egregiously, especially when he had averred that this cheque for twenty pounds had been identical with a cheque for another sum which had been given to him by Mr Soames.

  • From this cause it had come to pass there had been no time for explanatory words, even between the dean and his wife,--from whose private funds had in truth come the money which had been given to Mr Crawley.

  • He had said that the cheque had been given to him by the dean.

  • Cause vomiting after the antidote has been given, and follow with soothing drinks, castor oil.

  • Cause vomiting after the antidote has been given, then give soothing drinks and dose of castor oil.

  • If the suffering is very severe, during this stage, fifteen grains of chloral hydrate, well diluted with water, may be given every fifteen or thirty minutes until sixty grains have been given.

  • Some very satisfactory assurance must have been given me that such vote would be satisfactory to you, and I only wonder that I did not have the assurance verified.

  • He thinks that the construction which has been given to the constitution ought to be considered as conclusive; and that great inconvenience will be produced by unsettling what ought to be considered as finally settled and adjudged.

  • In the observations which I made upon this part of the question when I was up before, I endeavored to prove that every construction that had been given to this instrument, upon the idea of its being perfect, was likely to be erroneous.

  • We were four days' journey from the nursery at the time, and had the added anxiety about the other babies, to whom we feared the poisoned milk might have been given, and we dreaded what the next post might bring.

  • Have you ever seen the god to whom your little ones would have been given?

  • The quality of the love which may have so been given to him is of a different kind.

  • This reticence has, by some writers, been given an interpretation which does not rightly belong to it: because he was reserved, therefore he was treacherous.

  • The sentry and the picket were soon overpowered and killed, but not before the alarm had been given by Allen, the bugle-boy attached to the company.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been given" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been brought; been called; been committed; been decreed; been described; been destroyed; been discovered; been given; been having; been making; been placed; been produced; been revealed; been saying; been seen; been shot; been thinkin; been through; been written; each cheek; hard case; only surviving; said the young woman; une esp; walnut ketchup; will think