Sentence examples for we were given only from inspiring English sources

"We were given only flour and chillies to eat.

We were given only one key (two more were produced the next morning).

We faced a rental increase from £960 to approximately £1,120 for a small two-bedroom flat, and we were given only one week's notice to accept it.

Originally we were given only one script, which oddly enough never made it, but it was outstanding, and well, we love Charlie, he's a bit of genius.

When we lost children, when we found our jobs eliminated, when we were given only three to five days to mourn a loss that some never get over, Kirkpatrick voted to join the fight.

Though we are given only an innocuous glimpse of the pas de deux, we are told that Evan (Jake McDorman) removed his consort's bra with his teeth.

We're given only fleeting glimpses of the war, of roadblocks and of angry young men itching for a fight, but Middle Eastern politics are never mentioned.

The subject could have made for a dandy round table, but instead we are given only sound bites, each woman speaking in isolation from the others.

Even in the arenas of administrative and political reform, we are given only glimpses, although Ottoman statesmen were striving not only to keep their empire together but to recast it as a modern state.

We are given only a glimpse into the future in this 1994 Halloween episode, but there can be no dystopia more terrifying than one ruled by the yellow-headed family's terminally wet, God-bothering neighbour, Ned Flanders.

We're given only a glimpse of the bag, but we can see that the crystal at its bottom is a certain shade of blue — the same color it takes on when it is cooked by Walter White, the "Breaking Bad" drug-lord-in-training played by Bryan Cranston.