Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] to [noun] " 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 | The train would be allowed to cross the border if there was an absolute assurance that the children would be taken on to Britain . |
| 4 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 5 | ‘ These disposals will break the back of our £200m bridging finance , taken on to fund the bid , ’ said Mr McErlain . |
| 6 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nathan was seventeen and seriously ill with tuberculosis when he was taken in to Highgate Hospital in January 1942 . |
| 10 | The first supplies of aid to have been taken in to Bosnia by British army trucks have arrived safely at their destination . |
| 11 | Somehow or other he was trapped , knocked on the head or drugged , and his body taken down to London Bridge . |
| 12 | I was taken down to Holloway by car , with me on the back seat and her on one side and a male officer on the other side . |
| 13 | D ) At 4.00 pm ( 3.00 pm — Friday ) all outgoing mail to be taken down to mailroom . |
| 14 | Both of us taken down to hospital in a kind of litter — there were no cars in Simla , only rickshaws . |
| 15 | At the end of the day , they would all be taken down to Romaldkirk and put on a train , although on one occasion Sir Emmanuel had his private aeroplane sent up to transport them . |
| 16 | A minibus full of people from the villages near Hinkley Point was taken over to Suffolk to hear and see how unpleasant a nuclear power construction site would be . |
| 17 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 18 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |
| 19 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 20 | After this , however , the young man might find himself taken off to Soho , where Minton 's prodigality contrasted with his former carefulness . |
| 21 | ‘ The next thing I remember was being taken off to hospital . |
| 22 | Their parents had been taken off to detainee camps , and they were lonely and desolate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At last , with her right arm in a sling and a large piece of plaster on her forehead , which she had knocked against the post , she was taken up to Mr Fennell 's suite . |
| 25 | He stared at the hemline which was being taken up to Therese 's knees . |
| 26 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 27 | When I was nine months old I was taken out to India by my parents who had a theatre company — they still have it , in fact , and they still tour . |
| 28 | He always brought his reviews into offices personally and sometimes got taken out to lunch . |
| 29 | When I get ‘ taken out to lunch ’ I 'm in a state of shock for a week . |
| 30 | Peter Morgan remembers being taken out to lunch at the Trocadero and visiting Cadby Hall , the headquarters of J. Lyons . |