Example sentences of "was take prisoner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our navigator , Fg Off Ruston was taken prisoner . |
| 2 | In 800 Pope Leo III was taken prisoner by relatives of his predecessor Hadrian I. They tried to blind him , but he escaped and fled over the Alps to Charles , who was encamped at Paderborn in central Saxony . |
| 3 | Jim Almonds had become separated from the rest and was taken prisoner . |
| 4 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 5 | Alfonso was taken prisoner , possibly by El Cid himself , and subsequently exiled to Toledo . |
| 6 | He was taken prisoner in Italy and tried to escape , I understand . |
| 7 | George was taken prisoner , too , when he was fighting in France , and I remember reading in a newspaper how he had escaped as well . |
| 8 | ‘ Her young man was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and not so long ago her father was badly hurt in the Clydeside blitz , but you 'd never know it . ’ |
| 9 | Whilst the stipend supported him and his growing family , he probably never resided there but served as a chaplain in the Royal Army ; in this capacity he was taken prisoner in 1645 in an attack on Cardigan Castle in Wales . |
| 10 | But it was soon partly cancelled by the victory of the English-backed Montfortists at the battle of Auray , in southern Brittany , on 29 September 1364 , at which Charles de Blois was killed and du Guesclin , not for the last time , was taken prisoner . |
| 11 | The Governor-General was taken prisoner , though the Lieutenant-Governor , Dr Van Mook , escaped to Australia . |
| 12 | The intended beneficiary of this dynastic coup was Osred ( II ) , the son of King Alhred by Osgifu , Aelfwald 's sister , a youth of no more than 19 at the time , who reigned for a year but then fell a victim to further shifts of allegiance when in 789 he was taken prisoner , deprived of his kingdom , tonsured at York and expelled , and Aethelred , son of Aethelwald , resumed royal power ( ASC D , s.a. 788 , 789 ) . |
| 13 | He entered the merchant service and in 1744 , as a mate of a vessel returning from Virginia to Hull with a cargo of tobacco , was taken prisoner by a privateer . |
| 14 | Violette , armed only with a sten sub-machine-gun , covered her companions ' retreat through standing corn for twenty minutes until she had no more ammunition , and was taken prisoner . |
| 15 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 16 | A British journalist was taken prisoner in the train ambush but was released after five days . |
| 17 | Archbishop George was taken prisoner and , with his clergy scattered , the wealth of his church looted and lost , was brought before Charles . |
| 18 | Continued Christy : ‘ A battle raged for five days before the enemy over-ran us , and I was taken prisoner ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ When Paddy Ashdown parachuted me in , I asked him what happened if I was taken prisoner . |
| 20 | He was taken prisoner by the Germans during the retreat to Dunkirk , but with his fluent French and German and determined initiative he was able to escape three times . |