Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] taken [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 2 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 3 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 4 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 5 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 6 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 7 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 8 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 9 | She was taken back into the house and made to fill a bath and to get into it . |
| 10 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 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 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 13 | The next day we were taken down to the Brahmaputra river and loaded on to large river steamers . |
| 14 | Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response . |
| 15 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 16 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 17 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 18 | But there are several aspects of this prophetic Spirit that are especially important , and they are taken up in the New Testament . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if they are taken out of the conventional school system they can lose touch with their age group and become socially isolated . |
| 20 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Taking over the isolation hospitals did not appeal , and the clerk of the council said that , in the event of the council 's not being able to find sufficient beds at Ampthill and Biggleswade for non-sick patients , it would be necessary to have a lien on the accommodation at Bedford and Luton institutions when they were taken over by the Regional Board . |
| 23 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 24 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 25 | They were taken out into the grounds , weather permitting , otherwise ‘ they spend most of their day in this ward , which is a day-and-night nursery combined . |
| 26 | One by one , they were taken out by the instructor so he could assess their skill and how much of the tuition we had taken in . |
| 27 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |
| 28 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 29 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |
| 30 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |