Example sentences of "[was/were] taken [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery . |
| 2 | The cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained at large , however , and several journalists were taken hostage , some of whom were murdered , to reinforce the traffickers demands that they be treated as a group and given political status like former guerrillas , who were given an absolute pardon on surrendering [ see pp. 37851 ; 37914 ; 37957-58 ] . |
| 3 | Gado Boube , the Minister of Education and Research , and his permanent secretary were taken hostage by a group of students on July 14 . |
| 4 | We were taken hunting with a Harris 's hawk . |
| 5 | Twelve women died ( five in action ) and two were taken prisoner . |
| 6 | We needed this treasure to exchange against cloth and cattle and spices — and as ransom to exchange against our men when they were taken prisoner in war . |
| 7 | Two weeks later , at a place called Ballinamuck , the small French army surrendered after a short battle against a numerically superior British force and were taken prisoner . |
| 8 | The recent recruits from Lancashire were allowed to go home , but about 1300 others were taken prisoner , four officers on half-pay being shot as deserters and 150 of the more prominent civilians being led through London , amid mocking shouts from the crowd , with arms tied behind their backs and preceded by — a final gesture of contempt — a man carrying a warming-pan . |
| 9 | They made their way inland , but Lieutenant Smith , without badges of rank , and Corporal Woodhouse , wearing sergeant 's stripes , were taken prisoner . |
| 10 | The U-boat , having itself rounded the Cape , ran aground on the coast of Kenya and the crew were taken prisoner . |
| 11 | The Russians lost some 250,000 men , 40,000 of whom were taken prisoner , and loo guns . |
| 12 | British infantry advanced in their protective wake with relative safety ; German soldiers were taken prisoner in their hundreds , while others , astonished and terrified , fled . |
| 13 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 14 | When four Poitevin knights were taken prisoner by Richard 's Angevin grandfather Count Geoffrey Plantagenet they won their release by composing and singing a song in praise of their captor . |
| 15 | MacAllister , a miller at Ardnish on the Rinns , was named as one of the four men who were taken prisoner on the pirate ship " Bloody Yankee " when she is supposed to have sailed into Lochindaal , in 1813 . |
| 16 | The government brought dragoons from Edinburgh to restore law and order , and after a skirmish at Duchrae 200 rebels were taken prisoner . |
| 17 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 18 | Out of a force of 17,700 , of whom 10,600 were Italian and the rest native troops , over 6000 were killed , nearly 1500 were wounded and between 3000 and 4000 were taken prisoner . |
| 19 | Two other crew members died in action over Germany and several others were taken prisoner . |
| 20 | Annesley yard received and despatched coal trains from the local pits which were taken south at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. eventually destined for the Western Region . |
| 21 | But it is a judgment to be made by him and not by the courts , whose right and duty to intervene arises only if the decision is untenable in the sense that irrelevant matters were taken account of , relevant matters were not taken account of , or that the decision was manifestly wrong . |
| 22 | They were taken east , to an area that was a stronghold of the revolutionaries . ‘ |
| 23 | The six were taken prison in Beirut at the end of 1987 by the Lebanese Forces militia . |
| 24 | One call to pet food company Eukanuba and the expensive quarantine and complicated paperwork were taken care of . |
| 25 | Video duties were taken care of by the respected Paradise Windows accelerator card , featuring the speedy WD90C31 accelerator chip . |
| 26 | Producing a good report , especially on a very technical paper , can take many hours , and editors do not seem to appreciate how rewarding referees would find the knowledge that their comments were taken note of and that the other referees agreed with them . |
| 27 | Our navigator , Fg Off Ruston was taken prisoner . |
| 28 | In 800 Pope Leo III was taken prisoner by relatives of his predecessor Hadrian I. They tried to blind him , but he escaped and fled over the Alps to Charles , who was encamped at Paderborn in central Saxony . |
| 29 | Jim Almonds had become separated from the rest and was taken prisoner . |
| 30 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |