Example sentences of "was take hostage " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST BEFORE he was taken hostage , Terry Waite had promised to come to the laying of the foundation stone of the North East Cheshire Hospice , in Macclesfield . |
| 2 | Nissim Toledano , 29 , was taken hostage by the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas , who threatened to kill him unless their leader was freed from jail . |
| 3 | POLICE surrounded a top-security jail last night after a warder was taken hostage by prisoners . |
| 4 | A POLICEMAN 'S wife was taken hostage at gunpoint yesterday — only 24 hours before facing a cancer probe operation . |
| 5 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 6 | As he sought to negotiate with Aguinaldo , Florendo , the director of the civil relations office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and a former friend of Aguinaldo , was taken hostage along with three other members of the arresting party . |
| 7 | The meeting was overshadowed by the coup attempt in Trinidad and Tobago in late July in which Prime Minister Arthur Robinson was taken hostage [ see pp. 37606-07 ] . |
| 8 | TWO people were shot and a young woman was taken hostage yesterday as an Easter Sunday love triangle turned to horror . |
| 9 | After the Easter Sunday shooting in Stillington , Leanne 's mother , Pauline Rees , 43 , was shot in the face outside her house in Lyonette Road , Darlington , and 21-year-old Leanne was taken hostage for 47 hours inside the family 's home . |
| 10 | Mrs Rees 's daughter Leanne was taken hostage in the house . |
| 11 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot by a police marksman three weeks ago after a 47-hour siege in which his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend Leanne Rees was taken hostage . |
| 12 | Mrs Rees 's daughter Leanne , 21 , the mother of Pringle 's two children , was taken hostage on Easter Sunday . |
| 13 | Mrs Rees 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne , the mother of Pringle 's two children , was taken hostage on Easter Sunday . |
| 14 | Abdullah 's wife , Norjan and two daughters , were allowed to leave Iraq last month after the family was taken hostage while on a pilg pilgrimage ; she says the news of his release came as a great shock . |