Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] take [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to impose a state of emergency in late November had been taken without Khan 's knowledge , while he was in Saudi Arabia inspecting the Bangladesh military contingent in the Gulf . |
| 2 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 3 | Then Liza told me that Mrs Mitchell had died in childbirth and that Nelly herself had been taken to Wolverhampton to live with an aunt and uncle . |
| 4 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed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 . ’ |
| 5 | Miss Azovtseva also denied that the escaped whales — one of which is still in the Mediterranean — had been taken to Sevastopol from the Pacific coast for military research . |
| 6 | Too ill to speak , he had been taken to Marblehead , Massachusetts . |
| 7 | Peter Watt had been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by ambulance on Thursday at the request of his doctor . |
| 8 | Mr Wood recalled an incident last year when the Stokesley group was asked to find a site for the release of a badger which had been taken to Throckley . |
| 9 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 10 | In April 1943 Nazi German forces occupying the Smolensk area had disinterred what wartime and post-war international investigators concluded to be the remains of former Kozelsk camp inmates , who apparently in early 1940 had been taken to Katyn forest and shot . |
| 11 | She had been taken to Hastings Hospital and was now waiting for X-ray results . |
| 12 | There was trouble at Bazas , and a major dispute in Dax , where the bishopric had been taken into Edward 's hands in 1272 , and the townspeople resisted Tany by force . |
| 13 | Similar steps had been taken on May 31 by France and were taken on June 6 by Italy , while the Belgian government warned against eating British beef and set up a health inquiry . |
| 14 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 15 | The decision to support Iraq 's candidature for the League of Nations in 1932 had been taken before Humphrys 's arrival , but some misgivings were expressed about the lack of any guarantees for the Assyrian and Kurdish minorities after the transition to independence . |
| 16 | While referring to the Treasury waggon which had been taken near Quatre Bras , von Keller 's counsel omitted to say anything about one particular carriage grouped with other captured vehicles at the village of Villers Perwin situated at a short distance from the Charleroi road near Quatre Bras . |
| 17 | Two fans were charged with public order offences , but a police spokesman confirmed that no action had been taken against Speedie . |
| 18 | With help from both SPEW and the secretary of the NAPSS G. W. Hastings , a house had been taken in Great Coram Street , off Russell Square , and the Victoria Press was created with five women apprentices in March 1860 . |
| 19 | It would have been far better if a decision on that matter had been taken in Wales . |
| 20 | It had been taken in Marbella , just before Renée 's death . |
| 21 | The action had been taken after Nelson Mandela 's call to intensify sanctions and for people to boycott South African goods in a final effort to end apartheid . |
| 22 | When Mushtaq added Lamb 's wicket , lbw to a straightish one which hardly left the ground , much of the heart had been taken from England 's line-up , and the lead was a mere 99 , five down . |
| 23 | The prosecution say the wedding ring and the chain had been taken from Mrs McGurk by Hagans after he 'd strangled her and hidden her body in undergrowth . |
| 24 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 25 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 26 | Although no final decisions had been taken by March 1990 , the plans under discussion included the closure of several European bases and the possible halving of the 305,000 US troops currently stationed in Western Europe by 1994 [ see below for defence budget proposals ] . |
| 27 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 9 reported that although the decision to cancel Netherlands aid had been taken by President Suharto , it was widely supported by the government and bureaucracy . |
| 28 | It was liquid-fuelled with a relatively slow reaction time ( 10 to 15 minutes ) ; and it was to be launched , like the Thors , from unprotected platforms ; but since the original decision had been taken by Sandys to develop Blue Streak , the range and accuracy of Russian missiles had greatly improved . |