Example sentences of "were take [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Girls could be seen riding slowly past with one hand on the handlebars , the other full of books which they were taking home after the morning 's lessons .
2 In order to cope with the enormous workload while he was away , extra staff were taken on into the Firm as the newcomers christened it .
3 Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here .
4 There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way .
5 Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn .
6 In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College .
7 And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner .
8 During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army .
9 In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school .
10 After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station .
11 The Company Gas Works were taken over by the Gas Board in 1955 , and closed completely in 1970 .
12 Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them .
13 However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government .
14 Taking over the isolation hospitals did not appeal , and the clerk of the council said that , in the event of the council 's not being able to find sufficient beds at Ampthill and Biggleswade for non-sick patients , it would be necessary to have a lien on the accommodation at Bedford and Luton institutions when they were taken over by the Regional Board .
15 To boost their works team , the management headhunted a host of England Amateur internationals , giving them factory floor jobs , before Briggs were taken over by the American car giants and their football ground was developed .
16 When the Remounts were taken over by the army in 1916 , he was discharged .
17 Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession .
18 During the whole of its independent life the railway possessed only 2 locomotives , both Manning Wardle outside cylinder , 0-6-OSTs , named Cleobury and Burwarton , which were taken over by the GWR in 1923 and survived in traffic until the 1950s .
19 In the last week of March , the remaining areas of Republican territory in the south and east of the country were taken over by the Nationalists .
20 Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state .
21 Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February .
22 I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government .
23 The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board .
24 After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house .
25 Anybody under that is they were taken away to the army no bother .
26 The South Ronaldsay children were taken away on the morning of Wednesday 27 February .
27 The headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) was searched by court officials and police on Nov. 19 ; papers were taken away on the orders of a judge investigating allegations that the PSOE had received illegal funds .
28 They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car .
29 The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war .
30 The fine pair of dogs on top of the gateposts of the present-day front door were taken away after the fire and put on the gateposts of a house near Mere , belonging to Bullen 's daughter-in-law 's second husband , Mr Chaffin .
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