Example sentences of "[vb past] be taken [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 2 | He enjoyed being taken for a walk by Angela . |
| 3 | The policy has stifled realistic thinking and become a conspiracy whereby happenings such as the attempt to assassinate William Black was carried out under 2 Conservative government and the decision by the Attorney General to have no one prosecuted was taken under a Labour one . |
| 4 | The high level of criminal litigation which ensued was taken as a sign that this policy had failed . |
| 5 | Managing director Derek Walklin said the decision had been taken following a review of staff . |
| 6 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 7 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 8 | I thought Lee had been taken for a ride , and said so . |
| 9 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 10 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 11 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 12 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 13 | In fact , to my eyes , the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree . |
| 14 | A fifteen-year-old boy , the oldest of the nine , had been taken to a secure unit . |
| 15 | Then he had been taken to a torture room , where he was told , ‘ it is in your interests to give up resistance and to co-operate . ’ |
| 16 | Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house . |
| 17 | They said he had been taken to a nearby farmhouse where he was being given shelter for the time being , and that his name was Eric . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 20 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 21 | Branson himself said that he welcomed the ruling , if it accepted that the fare proposals were predatory , but that he was ‘ obviously disturbed ’ if the decision had been taken as a political move to stop Virgin applying in the US courts for remedies under the anti-trust laws . |
| 22 | Some 5,000 Western men remained trapped in Kuwait and Iraq , however , and there were reports confirming that some 500 of these had been taken as a " human shield " to sensitive installations [ see also above ] . |
| 23 | The portrait had been taken against a painted canvas studio backdrop depicting a road winding across chalk hills beneath a summer sky ; the stage property milestone against which the soldier had been posed , leaning , bore the inscription ; to France . |
| 24 | Mr Riley said the dividend decision had been taken against a background of worldwide recession , continuing soft US insurance market conditions , contraction of London 's insurance market and falling interest rates . |
| 25 | The P&O chairman , Lord Sterling , said the decision to sell Sutcliffe , which was UK-based , had been taken against a background of the need to increase the board 's focus on the international nature of the group . |
| 26 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 27 | Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist . |
| 28 | The car had been taken from a carpark in Oxford shortly before the crash on the Woodstock Road . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |