Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be taken to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 2 | A cyclist has been taken to Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital after an accident on the A423 , north of Kidlington this afternoon . |
| 3 | ‘ Tata was killed in the raid last night and Mummy has been taken to the London hospital . ’ |
| 4 | A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital in north Oxfordshire tonight , following an accident on the A thirty four near Enstone . |
| 5 | After six appearances and three goals for Leeds , the former enfant terrible of French football has been taken to flinty Yorkshire hearts as though he were one of their own . |
| 6 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 7 | AN AILING 68-year-old Seattle woman miraculously came back to life after an emergency medical team who rushed to her home declared her dead and her cold body had been taken to a funeral home . |
| 8 | The tombs represent a period of wealth and expansion in the sixth and seventh centuries B.C. Many of the finds in sculpture and decoration have been taken to museums , but the chambers remain . |
| 9 | Although the younger woman has been taken to be a likeness of his sister Wil by many biographers , misled by an ambiguous comment of Vincent 's , Tralbaut sees in it a close resemblance to Kee . |
| 10 | But while the dominance of folk myth discussed above , for example , the ‘ sexual ’ and ‘ conformist ’ stereotype of women has acted against their presence in the about women in popular thinking is well documented , no such critical stance has been taken to the persistence of these stereotypes in sociology itself . |
| 11 | In fact , to my eyes , the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree . |
| 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 | An ambulance spokesman said that one other man has been taken to hospital with pelvic injuries . |
| 14 | This , after all , is a place where scorning government has been taken to new extremes ; where voters have boxed in their politicians with ballot initiative after ballot initiative . |
| 15 | In the rainforests of South-east Asia , this agrarian way of life has been taken to extraordinary lengths , according to Professor Ulrich Maschwitz and his colleagues at the University of Frankfurt . |
| 16 | A Nottinghamshire miner 's daughter remembers being taken to the fair by a ninety-year-old great-grandfather , a very big man , bony man . |
| 17 | He felt sorry for his opponent , whose close friend and helper had been taken to hospital during the race , so he decided to give his spirits a lift by allowing him to win , but did so without letting anyone else realise exactly what was happening . |
| 18 | A man 's been taken to Oxford 's John Radcliffe hospital following an industrial accident at Bicester in which his arm was badly injured in machinery . |
| 19 | A man 's been taken to hospital with a chest injury after a road accident near Bicester . |
| 20 | ‘ Could you tell her that Mr Warden 's neighbour phoned to say that her uncle 's been taken to hospital ? ’ |
| 21 | Even in experiments in which care has been taken to factor out the role of immediate past experience , this sort of predictable variability persists . |
| 22 | The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 23 | ‘ You were n't long behind the Iron Curtain , old Pat , but you talk as if your brain has been taken to the cleaners . |
| 24 | It is worth pointing out that , if the initial Killing vector had been taken to be , which is ( 12.25 ) with and , an equivalent transformation would have been obtained with and . |
| 25 | A company which began serving up hot meals from an industrial unit on the Aycliffe Trading Estate has been taken to task by Sedgefield council . |
| 26 | Painting in ripstop nylon has been taken to extremes by Tom Casselman . |
| 27 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |