Sentence examples for i was recently given from inspiring English sources

I was recently given António Lobo Antunes's "The Land at the End of the World" as a gift.

I was recently given two miserable (and tough) small slices of aubergine as a substitute – on a set menu – for the chicken served to everyone else.

Allison Nakano, a Master's student at Brandeis International Business School, finds herself in the middle of anti-government protests in Istanbul I WAS recently given the opportunity, alongside 29 fellow students, to take a week-long business and economics immersion trip to Turkey and Azerbaijan.

I was recently given a Fortnum & Mason portable barbecue as a Father's Day gift, and it's great for picnics – but those disposable barbecues are pretty decent too, and you can now get stands for them which make them look a bit more aesthetically appealing.

Another example: I was recently given an Xbox One for Christmas (no Kinect) and it's a powerful gaming machine.

I was recently given a demonstration of a very new product, and it still required the user to wander through lists of database columns name that didn't always clearly tell the manager what the data was, thanks to cryptic field names.

I was recently giving a talk on intervention research and I was asked: "How do I tell whether the evidence for a particular program is good or not?" I often talk with practitioners in various fields who are struggling with exactly what "evidence-based" means.

I was recently giving a True Face workshop in a high school and one of the girls said that her dream was to become an actor but her parents were really against this because acting success can be really hard to achieve and financially unstable.

I want President Bernie Sanders, who was recently given the Congressional Award by the VFW and stated on CNN that "I'll be damned" if he sends more Americans back to the Middle East as president.

I was recently asked to give a talk on "capitalism and democracy"; that's bigger-think than I usually do, but I gave it a try.

I was recently asked to give a public lecture at the University of Pennsylvania on the subject of "proof".