Sentence examples for been given a present from inspiring English sources

A great movie will be just as good with mediocre titles, but if the titles are great too, it's as though the audience has been given a present.

She sat there with that chewed-in yet absent-minded smile on her face, as if she'd been given a present that she knew she'd like, even though she hadn't got the wrapping off it yet.

And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it — a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!

She sounded a little disappointed, like she'd been given a present and then had it taken away.

One tells of him being given a present of a Galápagos turtle.

One, recounted in the New Yorker this week, tells of him being given a present of a Galapagos turtle.

He knew he was to be given a present, but after being showered with silly string, was faced with every man's nightmare – carpet slippers.

One childhood friend, Laura Cecil, recalls being given a present of a scene from The Love Of Three Oranges, "which, of course, I had never heard of.

As he left, he was given a present - the name plaque from his door, with his title picked out in modern lettering.

Days before the press conference, each of the 300 guests – analysts, journalists, investors and Amazon's most diehard of customers – was given a present: Bezos's favourite book, Mr Pine's Purple House.

The next day I'm given a present as part of a secret Santa gift exchange, and I'm actually much happier than normal.