Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] taken [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too ill to speak , he had been taken to Marblehead , Massachusetts . |
| 2 | After he had been taken to hospital by ambulance the judge , Lord Morison , adjourned the trial until Monday . |
| 3 | Oh yes , Googol had been left safely in a locked room once ; and he had been taken by surprise … |
| 4 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 5 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |