Sentence examples for be given an honour from inspiring English sources

"I am the first female impersonator to be given an honour, as far as I know".

"I was lucky enough to be given an honour recently," he said.

May's campaign received £15,000 from Ian Taylor, the oil executive at Vitol and funder of the pro-EU campaign, who asked not to be given an honour after an outcry over Cameron's list.

"This man has been given an honour for drinking," her video report claimed, when the New Year Honours list was published in 2009 and one Michael Hardman, a founder of the Campaign for Real Ale, was on it.

People are nominated for their achievements by members of the public and whether they are given an honour - and the type of honour - is decided by a committee.

Opera star Luciano Pavarotti is to be given a posthumous honour at the Classic Brit Awards - six years after he agreed to accept it.

Chelsea vs Liverpool With the title already sewn up, Chelsea will be given a guard of honour by visitors Liverpool here, led by captain Steven Gerrard, who will bring the curtain down on his career after 3 more matches in a Liverpool shirt.

Lynton Crosby, the Australian strategist who oversaw David Cameron's pollster-defying re-election success, is to be given a knighthood in the New Year's honours list, it has been reported.

Been the longest and hardest 18 months of my life and feel truly honoured to be given a chance".

Meanwhile, Kuwait striker Bader Al-Mutawa has said he is honoured to be given a chance to earn a contract with Forest.

Fugard, once described by Time as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world", has now been given an unusual honour: a new theatre has been named after him – and it's situated in District Six.