Example sentences of "taken [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the most part , the literature of the United States has taken as its concern the architecture of a new white man . |
| 2 | The Slavs on Germany 's eastern frontier were obvious allies for the Jelling dynasty , and Harald had probably taken as his wife the daughter of Mistivoj , of the tribe of the Abodrites . |
| 3 | LaBudde noted that the quantity of non-target species taken during their time aboard was greater than the quantity of squid harvested . |
| 4 | TNF serum concentrations were retrospectively measured in samples taken during her illness . |
| 5 | We 're not sure if this photo of him was taken during his sales training , or because he had won the half year professional sails guild award last year . |
| 6 | It is the responsibility of all candidates to find out their results and of unsuccessful candidates to request their course director or senior course tutor to provide them with a written record of the decision which the Board of Examiners has taken about their progress . |
| 7 | At the time of looking up we ascribe an experience of greenness to ourselves ; we consider the experience as something being undergone by us before any decision is taken about its veridicality . |
| 8 | Decisions were being taken about his future which no one could explain to him . |
| 9 | It is true that the initial rhetoric of the statutory curriculum , with its emphasis on keystages and age-related testing , appeared to confirm the traditional belief that pupils have of necessity to be taken through their learning like an army in the field , moving in step through the year group fronts . |
| 10 | The range of the job varies from agency to agency , but basically it involves : progress chasing , making sure that jobs are taken through their various stages on time ; production , making sure that jobs go to and from studios and publications in the appropriate form , and the appropriate sizes and shapes ; and record-keeping , ensuring that a record is kept of what is going on on each account and every job done for that account . |
| 11 | The part-empty container is then taken off its rack and put back on the ground briefly to allow the hoses to drain back into it . |
| 12 | Even the giant 5-m reflector on Palomar Mountain was taken off its normal duties and turned towards Alcock 's new star . |
| 13 | A month ago Nutty had had the wires taken off her teeth . |
| 14 | Felicity , having taken off her shoes , was quite unable to put them on again . |
| 15 | She had done all she could — bathed the weals , wrapped wet rags round the swollen hands , even taken off her new cotton petticoat to cover his back . |
| 16 | This is usually a very pleasant and reassuring interview for a worried old person , who can be helped to feel that much of the anxiety about her heavy housework is going to be taken off her hands ; and the supervisor then tries , as far as possible , to choose just the right member of her staff to suit the needs of the applicant . |
| 17 | Had n't she taken off her own wedding ring and hung it around her neck with her red identity tag and the St Christopher medal Father O'Flaherty had given her ? |
| 18 | After she 'd taken off her cotton floral |
| 19 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 20 | Once she had taken off her black suit and was lying in bed dressed only in her underclothes and dressing gown , she admitted to herself that she was so tired that she might not have lasted out the afternoon in court without fainting . |
| 21 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |
| 22 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 23 | It was n't until they were inside the dark hall , and Mark had taken off her coat and carefully hung it up , that shame and humiliation began to return to her numbed consciousness like the blood to her face . |
| 24 | Mark was carrying his jacket , and Clare regretted that she had not taken off her stockings and belt before coming out . |
| 25 | She had taken off her waterproofs to reveal a white one-piece suit . |
| 26 | The men had taken off their stiff collars , but were still uncomfortable in waistcoats and tight trousers and big boots . |
| 27 | Luke and Sonny had taken off their jackets and high hard collars and now sat with their shirt sleeves rolled up , the noon sun shining through the windows warming their backs . |
| 28 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 29 | For women on supplementary benefit , the economic benefits of having a part-time job , all they can manage without full-time childcare , are somewhat illusory , because it is taken off their benefit . |
| 30 | A teacher friend of Eileen 's told her that although most of the mothers were genuinely upset , some were pleased to have their children taken off their hands . |