Example sentences of "[was/were] take [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house .
2 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 .
3 The next day we were taken down to the Brahmaputra river and loaded on to large river steamers .
4 Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador .
5 Here we went to the British Airways Executive Aircraft desk and were taken out to the Moët et Chandon Executive Jet , which was waiting to fly us to Edinburgh .
6 Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains .
7 And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time .
8 However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night .
9 She came back to collect her when she was three but after finding out the toddler was being beaten and burnt , social workers intervened and Natasha was taken back to the safety of the orphanage .
10 Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled .
11 I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about .
12 Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room .
13 He was taken back to the ward on his bed and staff nurse then checked his condition .
14 Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed .
15 The ore was taken down to the lake , boated down to Nibthwaite , carted from thence to Penny Bridge or Greenodd , ( the latter was quite a busy small port ) from where it was shipped to the Macclesfield Co's. smelters at Liverpool .
16 The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air .
17 In 1885 this church was taken down to the window sills and rebuilt .
18 I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days .
19 As the elder girl was taken out to the car , with police and social workers on either side of her , she turned round , touched her mother 's arm and said ‘ Are you all right , Mum ? ’
20 We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward .
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