Example sentences of "taken [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the debt was taken on to pay for Standa , a supermarket chain , and the Mondadori publishing empire . |
| 2 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 3 | ‘ These disposals will break the back of our £200m bridging finance , taken on to fund the bid , ’ said Mr McErlain . |
| 4 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 5 | Although total revenue was steady at £6.4m , interest on borrowings taken on to switch into American , Japanese and Australian bonds cut pre-tax earnings from £4.23m to £3.2m and earnings per share from 2.57p to 1.95p . |
| 6 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 7 | D ) At 4.00 pm ( 3.00 pm — Friday ) all outgoing mail to be taken down to mailroom . |
| 8 | Both of us taken down to hospital in a kind of litter — there were no cars in Simla , only rickshaws . |
| 9 | Joseph Usher , Tace 's hero , had hidden himself in a chamber of the mine but had been driven out by hunger and thirst and , having given himself up , been taken away to trial and execution . |
| 10 | Often bad things happen after — you know , like you 're taken away to school , or they tell you someone died or summat like that . |
| 11 | The grass in the middle had been ploughed up into a dustbowl , and here and there pools of dark blood showed where bodies thrown out had lain before being taken away to hospital . |
| 12 | ‘ The next thing I remember was being taken off to hospital . |
| 13 | Their parents had been taken off to detainee camps , and they were lonely and desolate . |
| 14 | There are large numbers of executions , lots of people are er taken off to prison , many people in fear and despair and demoralization drop out of the Communist Party , it 's particularly dangerous to be a Communist Party member in the major cities where the repression is most intense and where the security forces er are most numerous . |
| 15 | He was taken straight to West Drayton police station and charged with possession of drugs . |
| 16 | He always brought his reviews into offices personally and sometimes got taken out to lunch . |
| 17 | When I get ‘ taken out to lunch ’ I 'm in a state of shock for a week . |
| 18 | Peter Morgan remembers being taken out to lunch at the Trocadero and visiting Cadby Hall , the headquarters of J. Lyons . |
| 19 | I had been taken out to lunch by Wakefield 's grandparents one Sunday . |
| 20 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 21 | One night in late July I was taken out to supper by Ian Gow , the Prime Minister 's Parliamentary Private Secretary . |
| 22 | A subscription was taken out to Repertoire international de la presse musicale , a substantial new series of indexes to 19th-century European music journals . |
| 23 | After all , the last time such a state of affairs had existed , it had at least given her the bonus of being taken out to dinner by him . |
| 24 | It found that on average , women expect to be taken out to dinner ten times before they 'll have sex with a man . ’ |
| 25 | I was taken out to dinner on the day of my arrival , and yesterday there was a ‘ coquetel ’ ( cocktail party ) after the inaugural ceremony , which contained a lot of unintelligible speeches in Portuguese . |
| 26 | Father-of-two Jackson , of Tune Street , Barnsley , was taken back to court on a charge of criminal damage . |
| 27 | Subjects are taken back to childhood by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged , which leaves them feeling helpless and vulnerable . |
| 28 | Conducted professionally , regression therapy does not involve subjects being taken back to childhood ‘ by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged … ’ |
| 29 | About two or three months after that , I got into trouble again and was taken back to prison . |
| 30 | The judges granted a warrant for the re-arrest of Smith who was taken back to prison . |