Example sentences of "taken to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 26-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl were taken to the Western Infirmary , Glasgow . |
| 2 | The parents and another three-year-old child were taken to the Western Isles Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation . |
| 3 | She was taken to the Western Isles Hospital but was found to be dead on arrival . |
| 4 | After preparing for our morning 's activities we got on the coach and were taken to the suitable sites arranged for rock climbing and cycling . |
| 5 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 6 | One other group of insects has taken to the colonial life on a scale that is comparable to the termites ; those with narrow waists , two pairs of transparent wings and powerful stings , the wasps , bees and ants . |
| 7 | An RUC spokesman explained that now , following an arrest , a man can be taken to the criminal court , and unless there are further offences of which the police are aware , the women need not attend the court . |
| 8 | It was ten minutes before the stretcher came , and then the prisoners parted and allowed this one from their number to be taken to the opened gates . |
| 9 | Some bony fish have emulated the cartilaginous skates and rays and taken to the bottom-living life , abandoning the swim-bladder that , ancestrally , was the source of their success . |
| 10 | He was taken to the Jinan el Kabir palace , set in an oasis outside Marrakesh , with a splendid view over the Atlas Mountains . |
| 11 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 12 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 13 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 14 | Three more lids were shut and boxes returned home and finally a large pinch of the selected substance was taken to the right nostril , another to the left . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , the other avenue available — use of the County Topic Loan Service — does not seem to have been explored in any systematic way , even though parties of children were taken to the divisional library on at least one occasion . |
| 16 | She too had taken to the new helper . |
| 17 | Private buyers have taken to the new Golf in a big way and this Volkswagen is likely to be a used car market leader for years to come . |
| 18 | It was argued that many disputes which were previously resolved by headmen would be taken to the new courts . |
| 19 | Objection may also be taken to the new offences on the ground that rape has arguably been substantially downgraded as a crime where aggravating factors do not exist . |
| 20 | By early 1981 Dr Salama had already taken to the new station over half the NTV Jos staff , chiefly men and women he had originally recruited . |
| 21 | Two Indian women , members of the nomadic and isolated Ayoreo tribe tracked down December 1986 in the Paraguayan jungle and taken to the New Tribes Mission base , have died in a flu epidemic . |
| 22 | He was guilty of blasphemy and could now be taken to the Roman Governor with the recommendation that he suffer the death penalty . |
| 23 | In the 1930s the royal mummies were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . |
| 24 | On his return he was taken to the sleeping cell and , following the usual routine , was locked in , but on the next day the cell was empty ; he had broken the stone to which the iron grid was fixed . |
| 25 | ‘ At night the corpses are cut down and taken to the great lime pits near Charterhouse . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was given a chauffeur-driven tour of Beverly Hills and then taken to the famous Sunset Marquee Hotel . ’ |
| 27 | When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed . |
| 28 | Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 . |
| 29 | Collins tired of life on the margins of Scotland 's squad and was not taken to the European Championship finals in Sweden . |
| 30 | The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |