Sentence examples for were given lessons from inspiring English sources

You were given lessons in diction, acting, riding, dancing, fencing, and manners.

The couple were given lessons in translation techniques, for which Everett proved to have a gift.

On Friday, members of the American team that intends to govern Iraq after the war were given lessons on what to do in Baghdad if they were taken hostage.

One man caught with Abu Zubaydah insisted on his innocence but described a training camp outside Kabul, Afghanistan, where, according to information he gave to interrogators, men were given "lessons on how to make poisons that could be inhaled, swallowed or absorbed through the skin".

A suggestion that pupils were not taught enough about homophobia was also removed from Ofsted's final version after the school provided evidence that pupils were given lessons that addressed different views on homosexuality and were taught that homophobic comments or bullying were unacceptable.

During their captivity, they were kept apart from the main prison population at Guantánamo, confined in a squat building known as Camp Iguana where they were given lessons in English and their native language, allowed to play games and, on rare occasions, taken to the beach.

Not all of the biggest names in French fashion were giving lessons on drumming up publicity for mundane things like handbags and scarves.

Before long they were giving lessons, and Suppes wrote a widely used math textbook, "Sets and Numbers," published in 1960.

As a boy he was given lessons in piano and music theory.

Meanwhile, we are given lessons in how to do ancient mosaics and how to make a death mask.

Students at one of Scotland's most prestigious schools are being given lessons in yoga, mindfulness and t'ai chi.