Example sentences of "be taken to a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In many parts of the Kandyan Kingdom both civil and criminal disputes could be taken to a gamsabhava , or village council which attempted to bring about an amicable settlement .
2 The meeting resolved on the proposition of , seconded by that the chain should be taken to a jeweller to obtain design patterns with prices and format .
3 There is no limit to the number of different problems which can be taken to a solicitor under the scheme .
4 He said that Stompie must be taken to a hospital if his life was to be saved .
5 But if it 's a more serious fault the machine will be taken to a workshop .
6 If I did take the twins away all summer then Masquerade would be taken to a boatyard in Florida , so I now signed the necessary customs forms and the insurance waiver and the dozen other pieces of paper that would be needed to keep the United States government and the delivery company happy .
7 When the maltster is satisfied that germination has unlocked the rich natural sugars in the barley , the grains are taken to a kiln room where heat stops germination .
8 In that story women are taken to a castle , where they are abused and tormented by men .
9 A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border .
10 Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house .
11 Then he had been taken to a torture room , where he was told , ‘ it is in your interests to give up resistance and to co-operate . ’
12 AN AILING 68-year-old Seattle woman miraculously came back to life after an emergency medical team who rushed to her home declared her dead and her cold body had been taken to a funeral home .
13 I 'd have been taken to a guardroom and asked to explain myself . "
14 Patricia Holding , from Durham County Council , told the court more than 30 drums of hazardous paint stripper were taken to a dump at Heighington Lane , Newton Aycliffe .
15 All four were taken to a hotel to go through the agonising ordeal of kissing goodbye to the baby they had thought was theirs .
16 After a few days , we were taken to a camp for women and children north of Perpignan , where there was food and shelter , although not enough of either .
17 They were taken to a room with walls of glass , overlooked by a central console with nurses in attendance .
18 Why was he being taken to a government building ?
19 Only a few gondolas glided past , and in the distance barges laden with fruit and vegetables were being taken to a market .
20 Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea .
21 If the horse is taken to a show , or event , or some other unfamiliar place , its apprehension automatically increases .
22 By the time she was thirteen the routine of agony and rebellion on one side and vengeful discipline on the other had worn everyone out and she was taken to a barber .
23 Sgt Smith , seriously wounded , was taken to a casualty clearing station at Benenden , and died two days later .
24 Another 24-year-old man from Keynsham was taken to a specialist head injuries unit at Frenchay hospital , Bristol .
25 Moreover , the entire male population of Moussey ( 210 persons ) was taken to a concentration camp as a reprisal for sheltering S.A.S. men ; only seventy came back .
26 ‘ As a result of that the child was taken to a place of safety and is now being accommodated by the council , ’ a council spokesman said .
27 When SDLP leader John Hume met the IRA in 1985 he was taken to a house — widely believed to have been in the Republic — and after a wait of 28 hours was introduced to a man who said he was an IRA spokesman .
28 ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me .
29 The pensioner was later treated in hospital and was taken to a nursing home because she was too distressed to return home .
30 Mr Peter Joyce , prosecuting , said the offences came to light when the baby , who was not named in court , was taken to a health centre for treatment to an elbow injury inflicted by his father five days earlier .
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