Example sentences of "[was/were] take [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girls could be seen riding slowly past with one hand on the handlebars , the other full of books which they were taking home after the morning 's lessons . |
| 2 | In order to cope with the enormous workload while he was away , extra staff were taken on into the Firm as the newcomers christened it . |
| 3 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 4 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 5 | In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College . |
| 6 | Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn . |
| 7 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 8 | When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged . |
| 9 | The Company Gas Works were taken over by the Gas Board in 1955 , and closed completely in 1970 . |
| 10 | I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government . |
| 11 | After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house . |
| 12 | Anybody under that is they were taken away to the army no bother . |
| 13 | The South Ronaldsay children were taken away on the morning of Wednesday 27 February . |
| 14 | They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car . |
| 15 | The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war . |
| 16 | The fine pair of dogs on top of the gateposts of the present-day front door were taken away after the fire and put on the gateposts of a house near Mere , belonging to Bullen 's daughter-in-law 's second husband , Mr Chaffin . |
| 17 | In May these were taken away from the home grazings and put out on the distant moors for the summer . |
| 18 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 19 | A number of demands which were to be raised by the civil rights movement were taken up by the manifesto . |
| 20 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | These principled objections were taken up by the General 's political opponents , who dusted off the old charge of plebiscitarianism . |
| 22 | They were taken up by the fast-running forwards to outplay and outwit the slow and often clumsy defensive play of oppositions who had failed to grasp the significance of the changed offside rules . |
| 23 | It was pleasing to note that many recommendations made by our Agriculture Working Party were taken up in the scheme . |
| 24 | Several of these points were taken up in the Takeover Panel case in which Lord Donaldson said that the court should be wary of allowing judicial review to be used as a tactical or delaying device by a company which is the target of a takeover bid or by one of several rival bidders . |
| 25 | Every year the saints — all three — were taken down to the sea and ritually dipped into it : every year the gipsies from all over France gathered to celebrate this bathing and rebirth . |
| 26 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 27 | Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response . |
| 28 | Both of them were taken aback by the force with which she said it and she blushed red . |
| 29 | Such claims , which would be dismissed today as unscientific , were taken seriously in the past even by the great , who were no less willing than the humble to accept as true what brought them comfort . |
| 30 | In England and Wales these lessons were taken further through the creation of a series of urban development corporations — first set up for London 's Docklands and Merseyside , and later extended to a number of other areas , including the Black Country , Trafford Park , Teesside , Salford , Tyne and Wear , Cardiff Bay and Sheffield . |