Example sentences of "[been] take [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been taken completely by surprise , and fright added to her bewilderment . |
| 2 | He said he had been taken completely by surprise when Liam Taylor had suffered a heart attack . |
| 3 | It has been taken apart for restoration and can be seen next year at Hildesheim during the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the enthronement of St Bernward as bishop . |
| 4 | bitterly , and my tears will flow because the Lord 's people have been taken away as captives . |
| 5 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 6 | Joseph Usher , Tace 's hero , had hidden himself in a chamber of the mine but had been driven out by hunger and thirst and , having given himself up , been taken away to trial and execution . |
| 7 | A GIRL of 11 has been taken away from school because she is too brainy . |
| 8 | Erm once the development er that would have been g going into Selby actually goes into the new settlement then it 's me it 's either meeting the new settlement 's er sorry the the it 's either meeting the goals of Greater York , in which case that 's been taken away from Selby , or it 's substituting for Selby . |
| 9 | One other example over the last week just plucking , plucked out of the air , a hundred thousand pounds has been taken away from Hospital er College Hospital in London 's budget for the treatment of AIDS patients . |
| 10 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 11 | What was left of Jonathan Riddle had been taken away by attendants to be stored in a refrigerated drawer until the coroner issued his certificate for disposal . |
| 12 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 13 | It had not been taken seriously by MPs or press and the Black case was discredited by being placed alongside the earlier claim . |
| 14 | Against this background , several policy initiatives suggest that the issue of inequalities in health has been taken seriously in Australia . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been taken totally by surprise by this , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The data for developed countries are from official vital statistics and special surveys ( with the official data having greater credibility than similar registered data for less advanced nations ) , while the material for developing countries has been taken mainly from results of the World Fertility Survey and the WHO Collaborative Studies on Health and Family Formation . |
| 17 | That said I 've also been taken aback by Morrissey 's oddly derogatory remarks about Pakistanis as an 18-year-old and , without dwelling on them , I must say I found such flippant adolescent observations infuriatingly inconsistent with his general world view . |
| 18 | Because of his experience , he 'd been taken further into God 's Kingdom , he 'd been given that vision into God 's Kingdom , now that 's more than just been given your eyesight , cos there 's a lot of people will see , who have their eyesight intact , but refuse to have the vision that was necessary to accept Jesus , new kingdom . |