Example sentences of "[be] taken [adv] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mummy wants some shoes to be taken in to be stitched , and I can call in at Jessica Turvey 's . |
| 2 | But the having of a principle of action , as opposed to the unreflecting impulsive acting out of a desire , has , in fact , no place in Hobbes 's scheme ( unless such principles are taken simply to be settled general desires ) . |
| 3 | Through the Service , an initial supply of sheets is discreetly provided and thereafter a fresh supply is brought on a regular basis to each home , and the used sheets are taken away to be laundered . |
| 4 | John Coles , Bryony Orme , and members of the Somerset Levels Project have estimated that this must have involved the exploitation of extensive woodland from which materials were taken out to be fitted into the track planks from the same tree occur in different parts of the track . |
| 5 | These , they gleaned , were being taken off to be burnt . |
| 6 | As the original trophy , 113 years old and now so wafer thin it can be easily dented , was taken away to be placed in the Ulster Museum , nostalgic thoughts flashed through the mind of many great Cup finals , of glory and tragedy , jubilation and disappointment . |
| 7 | After Tepilit was taken away to be tried , they never saw him again . |
| 8 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |