Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] been taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed men eventually let me retrieve my bag and notebook — my money had been taken — and remain in the lobby . |
| 2 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 3 | My trousseau had been taken care of already — underwear , nightgowns and some light dresses for my honeymoon . |
| 4 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 5 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 6 | But , minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89-year-old discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 7 | But minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89 year old lady discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 8 | But minutes after the trio left , the 89-year-old woman discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom . |
| 9 | Suzanne Gratton , 22 , of Warwick Close , Birkenhead , was accused after it was noticed that the licence on her car had been taken out for another vehicle . |
| 10 | Their parents had been taken off to detainee camps , and they were lonely and desolate . |
| 11 | Her husband had been taken into hospital and she was waiting for her son to come and pick her up at half past twelve , this was at half past ten in morning ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Their clothes were expensive and had cigarette burns in them , their licenses had been taken away from them , their faces showed signs of what is known as the ruins of great beauty , they were always in various stages of depression ; and , being the way they were , this had the effect of making them exceedingly witty with the scaffold humour that Lydia preferred . |
| 14 | Their world had been taken over by an insanity . |
| 15 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 16 | Now , with no warning , no discussions , their children had been taken away . |
| 17 | Again they heard the allegations against them on the basis of which their children had been taken away . |
| 18 | Serious failures in parenting were also evident in the ex-care sample : one-fifth of their children had been taken into care and as many as one-third of the women had experienced some form of transient or permanent parenting breakdown with at least one of their children . |
| 19 | The cotton magnates had gone elsewhere and their villas had been taken over as government offices and army posts . |
| 20 | Whitlock asked after their order had been taken . |
| 21 | probably her family had been taken as captives when she was a child , for the conquest of the Alan country had taken place when Jehan was a youth . |
| 22 | One wartime May queen had just heard that her brother had been taken a prisoner-of-war , but insisted on going ahead with her duties . |
| 23 | A campesina woman who had been forced to move into the capital because her brother had been taken a political prisoner , had participated in the UN ) : |
| 24 | A sudden and debilitating attack of the sweating sickness had rendered her unfit for travel , with the result that Anne had accompanied the royal family into sanctuary and her mother had been taken by litter to Norfolk House in London 's Strand . |
| 25 | It all seemed to stem from a separation , a fraught time when she was about four , when her mother had been taken seriously ill with some mystery virus and whisked off into Intensive Care . |
| 26 | Cottrell ( N.C. , 1980 ) it was said that as the function being exercised was more administrative than judicial the attendance and cross-examination of witnesses , from whom statements had been taken , at a formal hearing was unnecessary . |
| 27 | Tallboy scanned the list of people from whom statements had been taken . |
| 28 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 29 | When the van came to a halt and the loading doors were opened he slowly raised his head and blinked at the light , like some slow-moving reptile whose rock had been taken away . |
| 30 | He high-tailed it on down to meet Genesis , whose drummer had been taken away by his mum … |