Example sentences of "taken [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flotilla was taken wholly by surprise when fired upon by the British warships and turned tail . |
| 2 | In fact Rufus had taken mostly to sleeping out-doors . |
| 3 | This is no accident ; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high . |
| 4 | I was being taken somewhere by car and a stop had been made at Kelvin 's petrol pumps opposite . |
| 5 | The recent picture shows the ceremony at the crash site , the other was taken secretly on the day of the disaster . |
| 6 | No full account of a particular formation or kind of formation can be given without extending description and analysis into general history , where the whole social order and all its classes and formations can be taken properly into account . |
| 7 | The style mixes patterns and textures with inspiration taken right across America , from New England in the north to Santa Fe way down south . |
| 8 | However , it is vulnerable to wind noises , especially if the shot is being taken right into the weather . |
| 9 | Whatever may be the degree of transference between generations , what is much more clearly established is the high proportion of attitudes and behaviour characteristics unconsciously learned by children and taken right into their adult experience . |
| 10 | ‘ I deplore the attitude that people can be taken on without any training , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 11 | Such changes enabled junior partners to be taken on without initial capital contributions and to buy their way in effectively through restrictions on their drawings . |
| 12 | ‘ These disposals will break the back of our £200m bridging finance , taken on to fund the bid , ’ said Mr McErlain . |
| 13 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 14 | Although total revenue was steady at £6.4m , interest on borrowings taken on to switch into American , Japanese and Australian bonds cut pre-tax earnings from £4.23m to £3.2m and earnings per share from 2.57p to 1.95p . |
| 15 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 16 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 17 | The train would be allowed to cross the border if there was an absolute assurance that the children would be taken on to Britain . |
| 18 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 19 | Much of the debt was taken on to pay for Standa , a supermarket chain , and the Mondadori publishing empire . |
| 20 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 21 | They could also be taken on to rough pasture , to distant resources , or even kept in woodland ( their natural habitat ) , though milkers would not be taken too far from the settlement . |
| 22 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 23 | Animals arrive with forged documentation which claims that they have been bred in captivity , and which therefore entitles them to be taken on to other western destinations . |
| 24 | The firm 's number of assignments has doubled since 1979 — from about 70 carried out by five consultants to around 150 handled by nine — and its annual fee income in London now exceeds £3m. profits are shared equally by the partners worldwide , and all new consultants are taken on with the view that they will ultimately become partners . |
| 25 | That was we were main one of the , my father seen er possibilities er when he attended the London show , he went er he , he was very much taken on with the Morris Cowley first of all . |
| 26 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 27 | You are also far less likely to be taken on for training . |
| 28 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 29 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 30 | However , she was taken on for six months by the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the children 's ward . |