Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] be taken [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school .
2 The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont .
3 Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name .
4 The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived .
5 The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived .
6 On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’
7 The figure related to the costs of the previous year 's bid defence against the hostile takeover attempt by Whyte & Mackay and had to be taken above the line as a result of the FRS 3 accounting rule .
8 In the struggle one officer smashed his head on a bench and had to be taken to hospital .
9 Hurieh El Darrawish , pregnant and suffering from renal colic and anaemia , was threatened with rape and beaten until she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital .
10 He fell off some scaffolding and had to be taken to the studio surgery .
11 Seven-week-old Patrick was not seriously ill when he was admitted to the hospital with an ear infection but had to be taken to Nottingham as an emergency patient .
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