Example sentences of "was [adv] taken [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 2 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 3 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 4 | So as to keep a fair balance , invitations were also given to all other parties contesting the by-election , only one of which was finally taken up by the Scottish National Party , about a week later . |
| 5 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 6 | Over the next two hundred years the issue of notes , i.e. paper money , was gradually taken over by the Bank of England which maintained an adequate gold stock to back the note issue . |
| 7 | The mill was later taken over by the cloth producers , Woolwark and Bird , a concern that also occupied a number of other mills . |
| 8 | Just as important was the way in which , after the horrific Massacre of St Bartholomew in Paris in 1572 , the French Huguenots were driven to formulate a theory to justify their resistance to a Catholic ruler , a theory which was then taken up by the Dutch in their epoch-making resistance to Spanish rule in the Netherlands . |
| 9 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 10 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 11 | The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on . |
| 12 | Major Buckley had a colourful career as manager of Wolves in the 1930s , but it was not until Sir Matt Busby 's brilliant reign at Manchester United that the commanding role of manager after Chapman 's example was firmly taken up outside the bounds of Highbury . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously , I was pleased to score against my old club , but the shine was completely taken off by the result , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Now , the main lodging house in Ipswich was afterwards taken over by the Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 15 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 16 | This whole idea was subsequently taken up by the Stratigraphical Committee of the Geological Society of London and published in their " Provisional Code of Stratigraphical Nomenclature " . |