Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] taken [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken away from the school by my father and tutored in a caravan by an eccentric ex-priest . |
| 2 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 3 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 4 | I was taken aback by the decor — vivid red , yellow and green geometric patterns screaming from every wall . |
| 5 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 6 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 7 | ‘ She was taken straight into the theatre where surgeons started operating almost immediately . ’ |
| 8 | I had not seen her before because during the school year she lived in Parma , where the family had a house , and during the holidays she was taken either to the sea or to the mountains . |
| 9 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 10 | She was taken back into the house and made to fill a bath and to get into it . |
| 11 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 12 | After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The next day we were taken down to the Brahmaputra river and loaded on to large river steamers . |
| 15 | Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response . |
| 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 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Anybody under that is they were taken away to the army no bother . |
| 20 | We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They were taken aback as the huge hangar doors blew in and fortunately they made a move to an interior fortified wall just as the roof was torn off and the building collapsed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Both of them were taken aback by the force with which she said it and she blushed red . |