Example sentences of "[was/were] take [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girls could be seen riding slowly past with one hand on the handlebars , the other full of books which they were taking home after the morning 's lessons . |
| 2 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 3 | Anybody under that is they were taken away to the army no bother . |
| 4 | The South Ronaldsay children were taken away on the morning of Wednesday 27 February . |
| 5 | The headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) was searched by court officials and police on Nov. 19 ; papers were taken away on the orders of a judge investigating allegations that the PSOE had received illegal funds . |
| 6 | They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car . |
| 7 | The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war . |
| 8 | The fine pair of dogs on top of the gateposts of the present-day front door were taken away after the fire and put on the gateposts of a house near Mere , belonging to Bullen 's daughter-in-law 's second husband , Mr Chaffin . |
| 9 | In May these were taken away from the home grazings and put out on the distant moors for the summer . |
| 10 | Church sources said four people were injured and 100 to 200 were taken away by the police . |
| 11 | Many were taken away by the Romans , others by Napoleon , but ours was a present from the Egyptian government in the last century — a jolly nice present , too , if I may say so . |
| 12 | We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned . |
| 13 | They were taken aback as the huge hangar doors blew in and fortunately they made a move to an interior fortified wall just as the roof was torn off and the building collapsed . |
| 14 | Both of them were taken aback by the force with which she said it and she blushed red . |
| 15 | The French , trying to expand , were taken aback by the collective ferocity of the Irish defensive response . |
| 16 | And he made one or two of the garage men you know really the the you could see one or two were taken aback by the things he were saying , and it was er very very professionally put over . |
| 17 | Such claims , which would be dismissed today as unscientific , were taken seriously in the past even by the great , who were no less willing than the humble to accept as true what brought them comfort . |
| 18 | The sections , which were taken randomly from the gastric corpus and included areas of haemorrhagical damage , were evaluated by an observer unaware of the treatment . |
| 19 | In England and Wales these lessons were taken further through the creation of a series of urban development corporations — first set up for London 's Docklands and Merseyside , and later extended to a number of other areas , including the Black Country , Trafford Park , Teesside , Salford , Tyne and Wear , Cardiff Bay and Sheffield . |
| 20 | If action were taken early before the restoration of the pavements outside the Cornmill Centre there would be less work to be done on the scheme . |
| 21 | The recent picture shows the ceremony at the crash site , the other was taken secretly on the day of the disaster . |
| 22 | ‘ She was taken straight into the theatre where surgeons started operating almost immediately . ’ |
| 23 | Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach . |
| 24 | He was taken straight to the canteen and given stew and something concealed under custard . |
| 25 | The programme cementing this unity was taken piecemeal from the Labour manifesto . |
| 26 | I had not seen her before because during the school year she lived in Parma , where the family had a house , and during the holidays she was taken either to the sea or to the mountains . |
| 27 | Finally he was taken upstairs to the Shahs study . |
| 28 | Dawn was taken immediately to the nearest hospital and put on a life-support machine in the Intensive Care Unit . |
| 29 | At the hospital , a surgeon was called and the boy was taken immediately into the operating theatre . |
| 30 | It should be remembered that the decision several years ago to continue membership of CERN was taken largely at the behest of the scientific community in full knowledge that , if it was combined with a zero-growth science budget , it would mean increasing pressure on the rest of nuclear physics . |