Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] taken [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Divorce Act was only allowed after proceedings had been taken both in the Ecclesiastical Courts for separation , and in the Common Law Courts for damages . |
| 2 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 3 | She was a squat , dusty-looking woman on the threshold of sixty , who had been taken on in the library during the war and whom Mervyn had tried unsuccessfully to dislodge ever since he had become librarian . |
| 4 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |