Example sentences of "[was/were] taken on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city . |
| 2 | Chris Law of Internal Audit , Regent 's House and Susan Grieve of Leamington Spa Branch were taken on a tour of the department , given a slap-up lunch and presented with a £250 cheque by Bob McInnes , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director . |
| 3 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 4 | A Dorset family was taken on a VIP trip to Wytch Farm 's production sites on Furzey Island after the father had bid for the BP-donated prize in a charity auction . |
| 5 | Victoria , always pretty and amenable , was taken on a round of the treats considered traditional for an upper-class London child : the zoo , the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , ice-cream at Fortnum & Mason 's soda fountain , a visit to the enclosure reserved for some overweight rabbits near the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and a Christmas pantomime called Where the Rainbow Ends in which four intrepid children fed their pet British lion a medicine called the Commonwealth mixture . |
| 6 | PERSONAL VIEW The night rugby 's Holy Grail was taken on a bender |