Example sentences of "taken [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well-hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . |
| 2 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 3 | As the coal went down over the winter months , these boards would be taken away to lower the height . |
| 4 | When the palace is allowed to decay and the stones are taken away to build the shanty town , then the frescoes and the tessellated pavements , the statues and the beautiful pottery are all lost . |
| 5 | Like the sawed bloodied pieces of shin and gristle in the butcher 's , shoved into a sacking bag and taken home to feed the dogs . |
| 6 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 7 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |
| 8 | He looked taken aback to see the policeman . |
| 9 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |