Example sentences of "were take [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 2 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |
| 3 | As proof of his point , Aston Martin 's chairman points out that one of his 155mph product 's soundest markets was Hong Kong , an island so small , says Gauntlett , that the only things moving at more that half that speed ‘ were taking off from Kai Tak airport ’ . |
| 4 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 5 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 6 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not all the Redmond employees were taken on by Sigma . |
| 9 | Three senior ministers departed from economic posts , notably the Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Denis Bra Kanon , whose responsibilities were taken on by Water and Forest Resources Minister Vincent Pierre Lokrou , a Cabinet member since 1986 . |
| 10 | The Education and Religious Affairs portfolios were taken on by Giorgios Souflias , hitherto the Economy and Tourism Minister ; the Prime Minister , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , took over the Economy portfolio , while Yannis Kefaloyannis was appointed Tourism Minister . |
| 11 | The reason must be that since the dispute over women had reached a critical phase by the end of 1909 , very few girl apprentices were taken on after that . |
| 12 | These and their white peers were taken on in times of expansion . |
| 13 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 14 | To share in it was so distinctive a mark of membership that , in time of persecution in the second and third centuries , pieces of the consecrated bread were taken round to baptized believers languishing in prison or on a sickbed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact , 32 houses , 3 churches and 2 gardens were taken over for the building of the Clementinum or Jesuit College . |
| 17 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |
| 18 | Surging mergers and acquisitions — £21 billion ( $33 billion ) worth of British companies were taken over in 1989 , compared with £6.3 billion five years earlier . |
| 19 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the independence of the mass media elsewhere has declined : newspapers which had formerly been privately owned either disappeared or were taken over in , among other places , Ghana , Ivory Coast , Zambia , Cameroon and Malawi . |
| 21 | Both Torquil and Vic were taken over in pace during the day by the aerodrome itself . |
| 22 | I am thirteen years old , and if ten years of my youth were taken over by four plain walls and nothing to do , I know how I would feel . |
| 23 | It is indeed time that the functions of both English and American literature were taken over by younger and better men . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Their premises at Church Wharf were taken over by Gwynne 's , an engineering firm , then making pumps , also the ‘ Albert ’ car . |
| 26 | Leeds City 's fixtures were taken over by Port Vale , while the players were auctioned at the Hotel Metropole in the strangest football sale of the century . |
| 27 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 30 | The Company Gas Works were taken over by the Gas Board in 1955 , and closed completely in 1970 . |