Example sentences of "taken [adv] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a year of this , he was then taken on by an Exeter dentist , a Mr. Groves , as a dental technician . |
| 2 | Soon after the outbreak of World War II , Sinclair was taken in by a deception operation mounted by the German Sicherheitsdienst ( the SS security service ) which led to the capture of two of his officers in the Dutch border town of Venlo . |
| 3 | Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin , the latter totally naked , stumbled into the street and were taken in by a neighbour who offered them a shower and clothing . |
| 4 | He was illiterate and possessed a limited knowledge of English , and had a partner who was unscrupulous ; he was utterly vulnerable , a lamb to the slaughter , taken in by a rotter . |
| 5 | She was such a level-headed , dynamic person ; and to be taken in by a scut like him . ’ |
| 6 | Just 24 pictures taken inside by a prison officer on film provided by the guests , will record the nuptials . |
| 7 | ‘ Was it taken down by a policeman ? ’ |
| 8 | As the dog does so , he is taken down by a snatch on the lead . |
| 9 | 1970 saw another change when the canteen was taken over by a catering company , and vending machines for hot and cold drinks , and snacks were provided . |
| 10 | The group was set to be taken over by a company owned by Pat Robertson , an American televangelist and former right-wing presidential hopeful . |
| 11 | Under a deal signed the following year , EPSI was taken over by a consortium formed by the Finnish chemical company Neste with the Portuguese companies Cortesi and Quintas & Quintas . |
| 12 | On the grandfather 's death , the farm was taken over by a bachelor son who set about founding a Clydesdale stud . |
| 13 | 2 ( — ) BOOMERANG : Love 'em and leave 'em adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over by a woman in this frivolous star vehicle . |
| 14 | In Modern Masterpiece there is the idea of people being taken over by a force greater than themselves and dancing themselves to death , and that seems to tie in a bit with what is going on |
| 15 | Has been taken over by a stagecoach . |
| 16 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 17 | Polly 's duties were taken over by a Groses ‘ bus of Northampton . |
| 18 | The Benson and Hedges cricket competition will then be no more ; the increasingly national rugby league competition will probably be taken over by a beer , cola , telecommunications , or insurance sponsor . |
| 19 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 20 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 21 | Taken over by a monopolist , output falls to 800000 units and the price rises to 8 . |
| 22 | Sam Oxley 's millwright business was taken over by a Mr Wheatcroft in a turn a Mr Thompson took over from him . |
| 23 | Then in 1933 Hoare 's — and its Toby jug trademark — was itself taken over by an East End brewer , Charrington and Co of the Anchor brewery , Mile End Road . |
| 24 | Their world had been taken over by an insanity . |
| 25 | In communal elections in Innsbruck on Sept. 24 the FPÖ and the local version of the Green Alternatives ( Grüne Alternativen — GA ) won seats and votes from both the ÖVP and the SPÖ , although the ÖVP remained the strongest party ; in Salzburg province on Oct. 8 the FPÖ improved its position while the SPÖ and the ÖVP both suffered losses ; in Lower Austria and Styria on March 25 , 1990 , the ÖVP retained its dominant position despite losing votes and seats to the FPÖ and the GA , while the SPÖ remained the second largest party ; and in Vorarlberg on April 1 the SPÖ lost its absolute majority on the Bregenz municipal council , which was taken over by an ÖVP chair . |
| 26 | He was taken off by a helicopter from RAF Valley , Anglesey and flown to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 27 | The oilmen were taken off by a fleet of helicopters after the vessel lost one of its anchors and was later forced to shed its seven remaining ones . |
| 28 | Rank , however , seems to have been taken unawares by a move that provided a disastrous demonstration of how ineffective he was in protecting the interests of the American companies . |
| 29 | Determined not to be taken unawares by an attack under cover of darkness , Cope 's men , on his orders , ‘ stood all night under arms ’ only to find , as dawn broke through the morning mist , that the Jacobites were attacking from a totally unexpected direction , the east , to his rear , instead of the west , to his front . |
| 30 | The other forty-five seconds were taken up by a policeman talking to a reporter about having nothing to say except that there would be an inquest . |