Example sentences of "taken [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today they give us a meagre amount of the cash which they had previously taken off us in the form of grant cutbacks , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 3 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 4 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 5 | Indeed , they may ( unwittingly ) hide the reality so that no account is taken of it in the forecast . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 7 | Having talked to the person making the eighteenth birthday cake about our individual requirements , we chose some suitable flowers to fit a small silver vase that was placed on top of the cake , and once the guests had gone I hurried them into the presses I had taken with me to the party . |
| 8 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |
| 9 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
| 10 | It is to be observed that in the Bognor Regis case Browne J. did not consider whether his decision had any effect on the right to freedom of expression , doubtless because the point was not taken before him by the defendant , who appeared in person . |
| 11 | Will any of their existing rights be taken from them under the new arrangements ? |
| 12 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 13 | Mike Twite was one of eleven souls taken from us in the Varsity disaster of August 1984 . |
| 14 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 15 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 16 | No formal action can be taken on them through the UCAS scheme until after 25 July . |