Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish that used to feed them has been taken away to feed animals . |
| 2 | So far nothing has been taken , but the woman has been asking detailed questions about security and the layout of the houses . |
| 3 | My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on . |
| 4 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 5 | The only outings I remember being taken on as a child were once with the school to the zoo and once by my mother to a seaside promenade . |
| 6 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |
| 7 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 8 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 9 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 10 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 11 | I had been taken out to lunch by Wakefield 's grandparents one Sunday . |
| 12 | I had been taken aback by the extent of his feelings . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 14 | GUIL : I 've been taken in before . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been taken totally by surprise by this , ’ he said . |
| 16 | And there always seems to be some shed which has been taken down somewhere , yielding very inflammable material , so we show no signs of running short . |
| 17 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 18 | Another concept which has been taken over and reinterpreted is that of ‘ decentralization ’ . |
| 19 | Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story . |
| 20 | That is , indeed , the line which has been taken in cases concerning the Scottish Union legislation ( e.g. McCormick v Lord Advocate , [ 1953 ] SC 396 ; Gibson v Lord Advocate , ( 1975 ) SLT 134 ) which , however , have failed thus far because none of the acts complained of as allegedly infringing the terms of union ( e.g. the conferment upon Her Majesty by the Royal Titles Act 1953 of the title of ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Second ’ , when there had never been an Elizabeth the First of Scotland ) has in fact infringed those terms . |
| 21 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 22 | Current theories about source relationships , and details of the stage history of The Fairy Queen that are inferable from them , rest upon printed evidence which has been taken at face value — accepted even when Purcell 's autograph contradicts it . |
| 23 | For concreteness , we focus on the corporation tax , which has been taken as the main application of the analysis . |
| 24 | model which has been taken from a camping environment and marketed direct to the angler . |
| 25 | The Phillips curve had been taken on board at the highwater mark of Keynesianism : by some mysterious logical twist its discredit was taken to imply that the ship itself would have to be scuttled . |
| 26 | The high level of criminal litigation which ensued was taken as a sign that this policy had failed . |
| 27 | This bought another East End brewery into the family tree , the Wenlock Brewery , in Wenlock Road , Shoreditch , just off the City Road , which had been taken over by Bass in 1961 and closed the following year . |
| 28 | After the vote , which had been taken in the Vladislav Chamber , where the Kings of Bohemia were once crowned , Mr Havel was sworn in . |
| 29 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 30 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |