Example sentences of "have been taken [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 2 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 3 | I 'd have been taken to a guardroom and asked to explain myself . " |
| 4 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 5 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |