Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] taken [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just feel it has been totally taken out of my hands . ’ |
| 2 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 3 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 4 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 5 | He stood with his hands in his pockets and she realised she had been so taken up with her seemingly childish pursuit that she had not even heard the car arrive . |
| 6 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 7 | She had been quite taken in by Sandra 's invention . |