Sentence examples for was given it by from inspiring English sources

Its owner – who wishes to remain anonymous – was given it by her mother more than 50 years ago and says she had no inkling of its claimed links to Van Gogh.

The mother with the wobbly seat says she was given it by a neighbour.

I've had it since 1994, when I was given it by a girl with whom I sort of had a bit of a thing going on.

She had taken what she believed to be ecstasy when she was given it by her boyfriend, James Meaney; when nothing happened, they each took another two doses.

Presenter Mark Evans travelled to New Jersey to find the artifact, which now belongs to Evan Lattimer – who was given it by his father, a renowned urologist, after it was bought at a Paris auction for $3,000.

I Capture the Castle is loved by a long roster of distinguished writers, including J.K. Rowling and Armistead Maupin, who was given it by his English grandmother in North Carolina as a boy and paid homage to it by structuring his novel Maybe the Moon on similar diary lines.

A Heritage representative called the buckle's owner, Mara Alexandru, who had been given it by her father, Norman Cook, the production manager on "Red River".

Mr. Kerry himself ends the commercial by saying, "We've got to leave this earth in better shape than we were given it by our parents".

Princess Anne presented the medals, making a world first, that anyone would win an Olympic medal and then be given it by their mum.

Schemes like Reading Matters mean that children in secondary school who need support with their reading are given it by other students further up in the school.

Of 4674 patients given chemotherapy annually, 36% were given it by clinical oncologists, 30% by medical oncologists, 27% by respiratory physicians, and 7% by general physicians.