Sentence examples for been given a plastic from inspiring English sources

Keep your business cards practical: I've just been given a plastic card, which certainly stands out but which I can't write on.

One season, peanut butter came to the table in a toothpaste tube; in another, diners were given a plastic ampule to squirt mushroom cream into their mouths.

We slept on a futon over a cement platform and used a squat-style toilet; we were given a plastic bucket to fetch hot water.

In her letter, Kristina Amadeus recalls how a young Bowie was given a plastic saxophone, a tin guitar and a record player and described how the pair would "dance like possessed elves" to Elvis Presley records as children.

At the crash site, Mr. Slone, a military police officer at the time, said he was given a plastic bag and told to pick up radioactive fragments with his bare hands.

After describing the tour available at the firehouse (with the tantalizing suggestion that a visitor might be given a plastic fire hat), Michelle also wrote a brief review of Peabody's restaurant.

After checking them out, I was given a plastic bag for them, and I headed for the graduate student reading room to settle down into my old seat -- only to discover that the room had disappeared.

A young girl is given a plastic bag of sweets and a bottle of lemonade after being genitally mutilated … the story of the 10-year fight against female genital mutilation by two film-makers has been made into a hour long documentary by the Guardian and BBC Arabic and will go out across the Arab world from Friday, reaching a combined global audience of 30 million viewers.

In one case, an HIV-sufferer was given a plastic bottle of water by his pastor and told it would heal him.

At the door, I was given a plastic bag for my stuff so I stripped down to just my shoes and hat.

She was given a plastic "dummy", similar to a child's teething ring, tied to the bars on the inside of her stable door to suckle on while resting.