Example sentences of "[vb past] be take [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 2 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 3 | By March 1992 , no legal action had been taken against those responsible . |
| 4 | The questions , listed for today in the Commons order paper , ask whether the fraud squad had the copy , if any disciplinary action had been taken against any officer and whether criminal inquiries are being pursued . |
| 5 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said no disciplinary action had been taken against any officers and that nobody had been suspended . |
| 6 | No decision had been taken in those first decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | It had been taken after some of the wettest Spring weather we had ever experienced in Norfolk . |
| 8 | His attention had been taken by another notice outside the Town Hall . |
| 9 | He was all ready to be wheeled into theatre at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital for an artery replacement in his heart when he was told this afternoon that the operation was off.The intensive care unit bed he would use to recover from after surgery had been taken by another , more urgent case . |
| 10 | A course of ampicillin and metronidazole had been taken by this subject within four weeks of endoscopy . |
| 11 | With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand . |