Example sentences of "[vb past] been taken [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 2 | ‘ It was in the paper that she 'd been taken from the harbour . |
| 3 | Managing director Derek Walklin said the decision had been taken following a review of staff . |
| 4 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 5 | After returning the painting to the icon shop , the dealer subsequently received two contradictory letters , the first stating that ‘ his ’ Wtewael had been placed on the national index of important works of art that could not leave Germany , and the follow-up , which noted that the Wtewael had been taken off the index , and that it could , therefore , be exported . |
| 6 | I did not think to emulate Mr Gladstone , who is reputed to have put tea in a stone ‘ pig ’ and then drunk it after the chill had been taken off the sheets . |
| 7 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 8 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 9 | I thought Lee had been taken for a ride , and said so . |
| 10 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 11 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 12 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 13 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 14 | Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house . |
| 15 | AN AILING 68-year-old Seattle woman miraculously came back to life after an emergency medical team who rushed to her home declared her dead and her cold body had been taken to a funeral home . |
| 16 | Then he had been taken to a torture room , where he was told , ‘ it is in your interests to give up resistance and to co-operate . ’ |
| 17 | Previously , the refugees had been taken to the US Guantánamo naval base on Cuba for screening prior to being offered temporary political asylum or , as in the majority of cases , repatriated as " economic " migrants . |
| 18 | Colt had been taken to the hotel where the target was staying … |
| 19 | The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders . |
| 20 | After sentence had been passed he had been taken to the cells , then back to Dalston in a black van . |
| 21 | I went for news again and this time was told that both my father and Dr Sambataro had been taken to the San Francesco Prison , a civilian prison in Parma . |
| 22 | Francis came to tell us about arrangements for the funeral and he brought with him one of my father 's pictures which had been taken to the shop for framing . |
| 23 | CASE STUDY 3.4 — MR HAMISH A social worker was called to see an old man in his seventies who had been taken to the police station for shoplifting a tin of corned beef . |
| 24 | Chalmers 's half-back partner , Gary Armstrong , was absent as his son , Darren , had been taken to the Borders General Hospital after an asthma attack . |
| 25 | Et cetera , the et cetera going on to explain that she had been taken to the hospital and there examined by Doctor Bright in the presence of Constable Makepeace . |
| 26 | He had been taken to the Colonel 's bungalow . |
| 27 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 28 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 29 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 30 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |