Example sentences of "[being] taken [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social interviews can vary from a candidate being taken over to the pub for a drink and a sandwich , so that future colleagues can see whether or not the newcomer will fit in , to full-scale formal affairs . |
| 2 | A man from the local education authority , after being taken over to the pub by Mr Malik , had announced his intention of sending his own son to the school . |
| 3 | You never hear of groups being taken over by the drummer . |
| 4 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 5 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 6 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 7 | It 's even less taking up i i er land being taken up in the region as a whole , it 's even less in terms of the U K. |
| 8 | Just how many are helped is a question now being taken up by the Lawson Wilkins ; : Society a group of paediatric endocrinologists . |
| 9 | Most of them must first pass through a stage of being used within LE by black speakers , before being taken up by the LE speaking community as a whole . |
| 10 | The work will not mean any new workers being taken on by the developer of the Tees Offshore Base , housed in the former Smiths Dock . |
| 11 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 12 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book mentioned a private road that ‘ at the time of writing ’ no objection was made to vehicles being taken along to the base of the walk . |
| 13 | The poet mocks the people for being taken in by the priest but lays the blame on the shoulders of the priest and ultimately on the church for failing to do its duty . |
| 14 | Not being taken in by the belief that " help " of one kind or another really is helpful : it may actually hinder someone else 's growth towards maturity . |
| 15 | Tommy 's being taken out to the car . |
| 16 | North-westerly from the cross-cut the level was driven 20 fathoms to another cross-course and a good bunch of ore was being taken out of the floor with overhead stoping in progress . |
| 17 | They will , for example , know how to alert immigration officers at all ports and airports to the possibility of a child being taken out of the country . |
| 18 | No restriction would be placed on the amount in lei being taken out of the country for visits to other COMECON countries . |
| 19 | They 're obviously being continually carried in from the river water but are being taken out of the system somewhere in the marine environment . |
| 20 | On the other hand , global warming is likely to produce more precipitation over the icecaps , notably Antarctica 's , which would mean that water was being taken out of the oceans and stored as ice . |
| 21 | This gives filtration in depth , the larger particles being taken out near the surface and the finer ones lower down resulting in greater filtration capacity . |
| 22 | She could do with being taken down to the tennis courts probably and have a knock up . |
| 23 | The Triptych of the Descent from the Cross shows Christ being taken down from the cross on the central panel . |
| 24 | Gouache paintings completed on site become records of intense sessions of work , capable of being taken back to the studio to exist in their own right or to become resources of ideas for larger-scale studio canvases . |