Sentence examples for was handed a pair from inspiring English sources

The attendee was handed a pair of dress socks as he retrieved his beer.

Before arriving at Damietta he had never worn goalkeeping gloves, and on his first day was handed a pair.

I was escorted to the men's locker room where I was handed a pair of sandals and the key to a locker.

And the right equipment matters: After two weeks' employ in an Upper East Side penthouse, he was handed a pair of Reeboks by his new boss, the better to withstand the apartment's wall-to-wall granite floors.

Yet none of that not even turmoil in the financial markets outside managed to stem the frenzied bidding.At the end of the morning session on September 16th, Oliver Barker, Sotheby's youthful international specialist and one of the prime movers behind the sale, was handed a pair of elegant white gloves, the auctioneers' Olympic gold and a symbol that the sale was a sell-out.

I was handed a pair of cycling shoes that, apparently, have an important role in your workout results.

IN the warmth of the morning sun, they got off the big blue-and-white buses that had brought them to Shinnecock Hills from the parking area at the Westhampton airport, and now, as they hurried through a white-arched gate to the 104th United States Open, each was handed a pairing sheet with a map of the twisting, turning 18-hole golf course that is now a tented compound.

He missed his first five shots before being handed a pair of free throws late in the third quarter.

You will be handed a pair of scissors to wield as you can fill your bag with produce for the road.

There they were handed a pair of headphones and instructed to bite, one by one, into nearly two hundred Pringles original-flavor chips.

Imagine geeing yourself up for a naked bungee jump only, at the last second, to be handed a pair of burgundy boot-slippers and told to go and have a nice sit down.