Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been take [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 4 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 5 | So , although she was aware of getting ‘ red ’ letters , she never realised that she had been taken to court . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 8 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 9 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 10 | Apparently , she had been taken by an Ixmaritian academy as part of a tax levied against her family , whose crops had suffered a blight one year and who were in severe financial hardship . |
| 11 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 12 | She did n't understand why she had been taken from them when they loved her and wanted to keep her . |
| 13 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 16 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 17 | The Hawick policeman told me it was a very serious accident in which Moira , Rachel , Fiona and Alastair had all been involved : they had been taken to different hospitals but he did not know the extent of their injuries or any other details . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 22 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 23 | In Briggs [ 1987 ] Crim LR 708 the accused was seen riding a motorbike two days after it had been taken without lawful authority . |
| 24 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 25 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 26 | It had been taken after some of the wettest Spring weather we had ever experienced in Norfolk . |
| 27 | It had been taken in Marbella , just before Renée 's death . |
| 28 | I watched the re-run of the race on the big stadium scoreboard , checked that I had run second and then went back under to collect my kit from the airless , sweat-filled room where it had been taken from the start . |
| 29 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 30 | It had been taken by a pilot who was shocked out of his atheism and into the Church by what was revealed to him in his darkroom . |