Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] take [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me . |
| 2 | That wonderful day ended on a most romantic note when I was taken to a lovely dinner in a large hotel , still wearing my floral dress . |
| 3 | I was taken to a main camp called Lamstor camp in er Polish er German border . |
| 4 | Perhaps because I was taken for a Jew . |
| 5 | I was taken by a teacher , Miss Miller , through the silent corridors of the large school , to the long , wide schoolroom . |
| 6 | I was taken by a Turkish friend to visit a cliff section in Upper Cretaceous sediments near Sile on the Black Sea coast . |
| 7 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 8 | THE Queen Mother 's consultant was today deciding whether she should spend a second night in the hospital where she was taken with a throat problem . |
| 9 | She was taken to a psychiatric hospital but doctors soon realised this girl trapped in a world of witches was no ordinary vagrant . |
| 10 | She was taken to a psychatric hospital . |
| 11 | She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch . |
| 12 | By the time she was thirteen the routine of agony and rebellion on one side and vengeful discipline on the other had worn everyone out and she was taken to a barber . |
| 13 | She was taken to a comfortable bedroom with stone mullions and changed into clothes appropriate for the occasion . |
| 14 | She was taken as a child from Virginia to the plains of Nebraska , whose earth and immigrant farmers form the subject of her central fiction . |
| 15 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 16 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 17 | A porter let us in and we were taken into a great yard . |
| 18 | We were taken into a small chapel and some Spanish border guards gave us hot coffee and bread . |
| 19 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 20 | After a few days , we were taken to a camp for women and children north of Perpignan , where there was food and shelter , although not enough of either . |
| 21 | Next morning we were taken to a small village nearby , on a patch of dry ground in the middle of a bog , and on this uninviting spot the chief , an aged , autocratic savage called Afleodham , instructed us to camp . |
| 22 | And at the end of the session we were taken for a tow round the harbour . |
| 23 | They were taken to a room with walls of glass , overlooked by a central console with nurses in attendance . |
| 24 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
| 25 | They were taken from a restaurant area , not the high security shop . |
| 26 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 27 | Passing through a number of English collections in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , it was taken to a British-owned Italian villa in the mid-1930s . |
| 28 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't see why this splendid open space should not be restored just because it 's 50 years since it was taken in a national emergency , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It was taken inside a wood , sheep grazed beneath tall trees that caught the sunlight filtering through them , casting long shadows towards the photographer . |