Example sentences of "be take to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was bad , Mrs should be taken to task for that . |
| 2 | She had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 3 | She had the fit in the car on the way home , and she had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 4 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |
| 5 | Even after her father had been taken to court for the abuses his family suffered , he quickly began to turn his attention to the girls , including Penny — by then married and seven months pregnant . |
| 6 | The DIY store B and Q has been taken to court for allegedly breaking the law by trading on a Sunday . |
| 7 | The bronze bust on a marble pedestal , found last autumn in excavations to extend the Roman site of Herculaneum towards the sea and thought to depict the young Bacchus , has been taken to Pompeii for restoration . |
| 8 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 9 | The friends , on a pleasure flight from a hotel , were taken to hospital for checks . |
| 10 | ‘ They were taken to hospital for examination but none suffered any real injury . |
| 11 | At one point the driver slammed on the brakes causing the police car behind to run into the back of the vehicle … the car was badly damaged … the two officers inside were taken to hospital for treatment to whiplash injuries . |
| 12 | A mother and her young daughter were taken to hospital for a check-up after a fire at their home in Romaine Park , Hartlepool . |
| 13 | At a time of an election when MPs at least pretend to listen to voters , object strongly and question the legality of a law which can lead to people who have paid all their poll tax being taken to court for refusing to pay non-payers ' debts . |
| 14 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 15 | When doctors told her early on January 26 that the baby was seriously ill and was being taken to theatre for an operation , she asked them : ‘ How come you left it so late ? ’ |
| 16 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 17 | In 1988 , the Union of Student Unions in Ireland ( USI ) was taken to court for SPUC ( The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child ) . |
| 18 | Some time later this ‘ incorrigible rogue ’ was taken to court for running away and leaving his wife and four children who became a charge on the parish of Felmersham . |
| 19 | The former civil servant , Clive Ponting , was taken to court for disclosing information about the sinking of the Argentine ship , the Belgrano , during the Falklands conflict . |
| 20 | Last Friday , Meat Trade Suppliers was taken to task for ‘ seriously misleading ’ shareholders over a hostile offer . |
| 21 | In July 1200 Conrad of Mainz was taken to task for not having sent report to Rome about plans for the tribunal to decide on an emperor . |
| 22 | He was taken to hospital for an x-ray examination . |
| 23 | Kathleen , 63 , was taken to hospital for treatment for cuts and bruises . |
| 24 | On her fortieth birthday , in 1943 , she was taken to hospital for a cancer operation and no one expected her to live . |
| 25 | The man , suffering from a leg injury believed to have been caused by the fall , was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 26 | After the defendant 's Ford Fiesta crashed , Scott had to be restrained before he was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 27 | An elderly woman was taken to hospital for a precautionary check-up yesterday after a chip pan fire at her home in Annandale Crescent , Hartlepool . |
| 28 | The boy was taken to hospital for a painkiller and a check-up . |
| 29 | Declan Murphy , the rider of Yorkshire Gale , was taken to hospital for precautionary x-rays after trapping a nerve in his back . |