Example sentences of "we [be] taken [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards .
2 After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house .
3 Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that .
4 The next day we were taken down to the Brahmaputra river and loaded on to large river steamers .
5 Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response .
6 We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs .
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