Example sentences of "[verb] be taken [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't appreciate the fact that my grandmother has been taken advantage of . ’ |
| 2 | Whether you are going abroad on holiday or business , The Royal Bank of Scotland allows you to relax in the knowledge that everything has been taken care of ; travellers cheques and eurocheques , foreign currency , Access , Visa and travel insurance . |
| 3 | He 's also said to have telephoned George King saying : ’ That little bit of business has been taken care of ’ |
| 4 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 5 | They 'd been taken care of . |
| 6 | Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury . |
| 7 | It could all have been taken care of without you bothering . |
| 8 | But she liked being taken care of , without being smothered . |
| 9 | Thailand claims the Vietnamese withdrawal was not genuine , and on Monday a Foreign Ministry spokesman , Prachyadavi Tavedikul , said reporters would be shown five Vietnamese in Cambodian Army uniforms who had been taken prisoner by Khmer Rouge resistance guerrillas after Hanoi 's withdrawal deadline of 26 September . |
| 10 | Both boys had been taken prisoner and tortured ( according to Dr Caskie , who told the story in his book The Tartan Pimpernel ) ‘ until the blood came out of their ears ’ ; but they managed convincingly to deny their activities , and eventually they were released . |
| 11 | To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner . |
| 12 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 13 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 14 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 15 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 16 | In fact , he had been taken prisoner after going behind enemy lines to retrieve the body of a friend . |
| 17 | Clinton and Neville of Hornby seem to have been followers of the Earl of Lancaster ; Neville had been taken prisoner at Boroughbridge but was pardoned in return for a fine of £500 , of which he paid only £50 . |
| 18 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 19 | Robert had been taken prisoner in his turn and , for the time being , hostilities had ceased while both sides licked their wounds and took stock of the situation . |
| 20 | A further 450 Palestinians had been taken prisoner . |
| 21 | Now , badly wounded , he had been taken prisoner . |
| 22 | On 11 April 1986 Minnie Keenan was listening to the radio in her east Belfast home when she heard the news that her son Brian had been taken hostage in Beirut . |
| 23 | Two families had been taken hostage to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000 . |
| 24 | The US manager , who knew no Spanish , had been taken hostage and had phoned the embassy claiming he had been captured by Communists . |
| 25 | Sullivan also persuaded Bazargan to help obtain the release of a number of Americans who had been taken hostage in the listening posts that the US had manned along the soviet border . |
| 26 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 27 | According to casualty figures for the conflict in 1991 issued by Nagorny Karabakh 270 Armenians , 216 Azerbaijanis and 15 servicemen of various nationalities had died ; 400 Armenians , 180 Azerbaijanis and 34 servicemen had been wounded ; and 599 Armenians had been taken hostage , of whom 226 had not yet returned . |
| 28 | On June 2 , ECOMOG headquarters in Monrovia announced that six other Senegalese soldiers had been taken hostage by Taylor 's men . |
| 29 | On Aug. 14 , Georgian National Guard detachments were deployed in Abkhazia , following a televised address by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze , in which he warned that all measures would be employed to secure the release of Interior Minister Roman Gventsadze and other officials , who had been taken hostage on Aug. 11 by supporters of ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia . |
| 30 | He felt that his trust and position had been taken advantage of : that he had been made to look a fool . |