Example sentences of "[prep] [be] taken to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 2 | ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil . |
| 3 | Trafalgar came within a hair 's breadth of being the first company to be taken to court by the Financial Reporting Review Panel last year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) . |
| 4 | I would like him to be taken to court ; where the Jury , |
| 5 | more likely to be taken to court and , in some cases to prison , once they have broken the law ; and |
| 6 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 7 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 8 | She said that the pain was a little better after the pethidine she had been given and she was able to rest quietly while she waited to be taken to theatre . |
| 9 | I refused to be taken to school , but every morning before I left , the other wives would come and put make-up all over my face – – bright red lipstick and things . |
| 10 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 11 | She had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 12 | She had the fit in the car on the way home , and she had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 13 | She had to be taken to hospital and has since recovered . |
| 14 | In the struggle one officer smashed his head on a bench and had to be taken to hospital . |
| 15 | WOMAN soccer ref Marilyn Kelly , 47 , had to be taken to hospital after a fan head-butted her . |
| 16 | An unprecedented hunger strike took place in Tbilisi , the republican capital , in an attempt to block the changes ; more than a hundred of the demonstrators had to be taken to hospital . |
| 17 | He said he would make arrangements for Mrs Bean to be taken to hospital , but that he would prefer to talk to her son first . |
| 18 | Hurieh El Darrawish , pregnant and suffering from renal colic and anaemia , was threatened with rape and beaten until she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital . |
| 19 | When the angina patient seemed to be stable he too was transported to an ambulance to be taken to hospital so that he could rest and fully recover from his attack . |
| 20 | The seven deny attempting to wound security forces , and causing an explosion and actual bodily harm to a local man , who had to be taken to hospital with head injuries when the coffee jar device exploded . |
| 21 | Teacher Martin Lock went on a ‘ trip ’ at school after accepting the sweet from the girl , had to be taken to hospital and treated with charcoal then spent the rest of the day in a darkened room recovering from the drug . |
| 22 | He was expected to be taken to hospital by air ambulance . |
| 23 | A catering student in Seaham had to be taken to hospital after he accidentally sat on a new knife . |
| 24 | The emergency doctor was called , the doctor phoned for an ambulance , and for Alice to be taken to hospital , but when the ambulance staff tested for her blood pressure , it was so low they hardly got a reading . |