Example sentences of "taken to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 , the Union of Student Unions in Ireland ( USI ) was taken to court for SPUC ( The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child ) . |
| 2 | Even after her father had been taken to court for the abuses his family suffered , he quickly began to turn his attention to the girls , including Penny — by then married and seven months pregnant . |
| 3 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
| 4 | Some time later this ‘ incorrigible rogue ’ was taken to court for running away and leaving his wife and four children who became a charge on the parish of Felmersham . |
| 5 | The former civil servant , Clive Ponting , was taken to court for disclosing information about the sinking of the Argentine ship , the Belgrano , during the Falklands conflict . |
| 6 | The DIY store B and Q has been taken to court for allegedly breaking the law by trading on a Sunday . |
| 7 | At a time of an election when MPs at least pretend to listen to voters , object strongly and question the legality of a law which can lead to people who have paid all their poll tax being taken to court for refusing to pay non-payers ' debts . |
| 8 | You know if someone goes it 's , gets taken to court for say , a murder |
| 9 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 10 | When doctors told her early on January 26 that the baby was seriously ill and was being taken to theatre for an operation , she asked them : ‘ How come you left it so late ? ’ |
| 11 | The bronze bust on a marble pedestal , found last autumn in excavations to extend the Roman site of Herculaneum towards the sea and thought to depict the young Bacchus , has been taken to Pompeii for restoration . |
| 12 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 13 | He was taken to hospital for an x-ray examination . |
| 14 | She had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 15 | She had the fit in the car on the way home , and she had to be taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 16 | The friends , on a pleasure flight from a hotel , were taken to hospital for checks . |
| 17 | ‘ They were taken to hospital for examination but none suffered any real injury . |
| 18 | He was then taken to hospital for observation . |
| 19 | Kathleen , 63 , was taken to hospital for treatment for cuts and bruises . |
| 20 | On her fortieth birthday , in 1943 , she was taken to hospital for a cancer operation and no one expected her to live . |
| 21 | The man , suffering from a leg injury believed to have been caused by the fall , was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 22 | At one point the driver slammed on the brakes causing the police car behind to run into the back of the vehicle … the car was badly damaged … the two officers inside were taken to hospital for treatment to whiplash injuries . |
| 23 | Lillywhite starts today 's final stage 20 seconds ahead of young Norwegian rider Ole Simensen who was in a crash yesterday and taken to hospital for attention to minor injuries . |
| 24 | After the defendant 's Ford Fiesta crashed , Scott had to be restrained before he was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 25 | A mother and her young daughter were taken to hospital for a check-up after a fire at their home in Romaine Park , Hartlepool . |
| 26 | An elderly woman was taken to hospital for a precautionary check-up yesterday after a chip pan fire at her home in Annandale Crescent , Hartlepool . |
| 27 | The boy was taken to hospital for a painkiller and a check-up . |
| 28 | Declan Murphy , the rider of Yorkshire Gale , was taken to hospital for precautionary x-rays after trapping a nerve in his back . |
| 29 | Last Friday , Meat Trade Suppliers was taken to task for ‘ seriously misleading ’ shareholders over a hostile offer . |
| 30 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |