Example sentences of "[been] take to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dozens of disabled people have been taking to the water learning how to sail .
2 Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend .
3 Previously , the refugees had been taken to the US Guantánamo naval base on Cuba for screening prior to being offered temporary political asylum or , as in the majority of cases , repatriated as " economic " migrants .
4 ‘ Has the device been taken to the cemetery ? ’
5 Two approaches have been taken to the interpretation of deep dyslexia in relation to models of normal reading .
6 But while the dominance of folk myth discussed above , for example , the ‘ sexual ’ and ‘ conformist ’ stereotype of women has acted against their presence in the about women in popular thinking is well documented , no such critical stance has been taken to the persistence of these stereotypes in sociology itself .
7 The British had been taken to the cleaners because foolish politicians in post-war Britain had elected to produce sociologists instead of engineers , and the predictable end result was that Britain had been short on wealth creators and long on spenders .
8 ‘ You were n't long behind the Iron Curtain , old Pat , but you talk as if your brain has been taken to the cleaners .
9 Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job .
10 Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job .
11 Colt had been taken to the hotel where the target was staying …
12 Right now , those hip hop beats have been taken to the max and they 've got to be real careful it does n't become like Muzak
13 ‘ Tata was killed in the raid last night and Mummy has been taken to the London hospital . ’
14 The two girls had been fetched by car , the Prince 's car , from the salon and been taken to the river at Beni Suef , where the dahabeeyah had called in for them .
15 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 .
16 Chalmers 's half-back partner , Gary Armstrong , was absent as his son , Darren , had been taken to the Borders General Hospital after an asthma attack .
17 The injured have been taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford .
18 She 's been taken to the Seabourne General Hospital . ’
19 I went for news again and this time was told that both my father and Dr Sambataro had been taken to the San Francesco Prison , a civilian prison in Parma .
20 ‘ Three bodies have been taken to the mortuary and there are four more at the scene , ’ said a West Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokeswoman .
21 After sentence had been passed he had been taken to the cells , then back to Dalston in a black van .
22 CASE STUDY 3.4 — MR HAMISH A social worker was called to see an old man in his seventies who had been taken to the police station for shoplifting a tin of corned beef .
23 She 'd even been taken to the police station by the teacher to see if they , the police , wanted to speak to her .
24 Francis came to tell us about arrangements for the funeral and he brought with him one of my father 's pictures which had been taken to the shop for framing .
25 He had been taken to the Colonel 's bungalow .
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