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 . |