Example sentences of "was taken " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was taken to the Interrogation wing of Gaza Prison . |
| 2 | The letter-writer is an orthopaedic surgeon who was taken off a plane as he was about to make a short visit to the UK where he had been a post-graduate student . |
| 3 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 4 | Legal action was taken in 1986 by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child ( SPUC ) to prevent the two family planning clinics in the Republic from counselling abortion . |
| 5 | The scheme was taken to Public Inquiry in October 1990 , in which the Borough of Camden was supported by the Thirties Society and Lucy Archer , Raymond Erith 's daughter and biographer . |
| 6 | The photo here was taken in friend Jane Allen 's garden — a very practical potter and organic gardener . |
| 7 | Once again , however , defensiveness won the day and when the Strathclyde Centre circulated forces asking them to co-operate in the venture , a decision was taken to withhold co-operation and a circular went round to this effect , suggesting the existing Home Office funded PRSU ( Police Research Services Unit ) and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit were adequate for the needs of the service . |
| 8 | If he was taken for the army , the light in their house would be damped out forever . |
| 9 | He paused , and this was taken as a signal for a round of cheers and shouts . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be a sad thing , ’ Angus answered at once , ‘ if Alex was taken away from his Mary into the army when they were not a year married . ’ |
| 11 | Or if my Donald was taken , married or not , Mary McCulloch was thinking . |
| 12 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 13 | Significantly , he adduced the work of the American poet Wallace Stevens at this point , a man torn between the profession of law and the poetic muse , whose view of lost faith and a ‘ disconnected ’ tradition imbued his poetry with a wistfulness and a challenge that was taken very seriously by Leonard and Layton ; or , perhaps , viewed by them as a satisfactory replacement . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the ladies doubles final had to be cancelled , but the men 's title was taken by Pashley and Carswell . |
| 15 | To shape the generous indentation , the wood was taken out gradually with a deep oval gouge . |
| 16 | At the time of writing it appears that the broker in this case has gone into liquidation without making the required payment , and the couple must now turn to the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , which can pay compensation in cases where ( a ) the broker has gone into liquidation , and ( b ) the original investment was taken up about 28 August 1988 . |
| 17 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 18 | On the passenger side InterCity was taken out first ; then all the London-commuter-belt services were grouped to form London & South East ( later renamed Network SouthEast ) ; finally , everything left over formed Other Provincial Services ( later renamed Provincial ) . |
| 19 | This type of choreography was taken up by later music-hall acts whose very eccentric soft shoe , sand dances before a background of pyramids and palm trees aroused much laughter . |
| 20 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 21 | I was taken away in disgrace and I did n't care . |
| 22 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 23 | And it was 1952 before that road was taken — by Hugh Kenner ; it was only then that responsible criticism of Pound became possible — everything before that belongs , as it were , in pre-history . |
| 24 | The new ball was taken as soon as it was available , and entrusted to Lewis . |
| 25 | Consequently , after the Asian Open — which Hendry won — his No. 1 position in the world was taken over briefly by the 20-year-old Scot . |
| 26 | Nearly 95 per cent of its one-for-four rights issue was taken up , with Panmure Gordon placing the remainder at 140p . |
| 27 | Some was taken in briefcases to Peking . |
| 28 | Last summer , the House of Representatives passed a bill funding the full $1.8bn requested by the Navy , but the vote was taken before the second sea test failure . |
| 29 | Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . |
| 30 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |