Example sentences of "[prep] be taken to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 2 | Local authorities will have a duty to keep the streets clean , on pain of being taken to court by members of the public . |
| 3 | Bureaux that ignore the new laws run the risk of being taken to court by local trading standards authorities , and fined . |
| 4 | For a tradesman or businessman to allow himself to become over indebted to the extent of being taken to court , let alone jailed , remained a slur if not , at least temporarily , a disgrace and a mark of unreliability . |
| 5 | Seventeen year old Ritu Vasudeva spoke of how her family sheltered in their house for a month for fear of being taken to one of Saddam 's guest hotels , then they had to forge exit papers to enable them to escape . |
| 6 | People are suffering from physical and mental problems , sometimes resulting in being taken to mental hospital . |
| 7 | Before being taken to the platform , he was introduced to those members of the Committee who happened to be milling around the entrance . |
| 8 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 9 | They were a group of 130 citizens , headed by their Burgomaster from the small Dutch town of Haren , who were received in Church House before being taken to the homes of their local hosts . |
| 10 | He was treated for shock by an off-duty doctor at the airfield before being taken to hospital , from where he was later discharged . |
| 11 | In a short address by Solveig Skjelstad , the quests scattered about the hillside and heard how as a seven year old girl , she had helped remove the bodies from both crashes , to a barn on the farm , there the bodies were placed in coffins before being taken to Trondheim for burial . |
| 12 | He was then able to sleep for about half an hour before being taken to theatre . |
| 13 | They were allowed twenty two sparse words before being taken to a Nazi Concentration camp . |
| 14 | He was rescucitated by the nurse , before being taken to hospital . |
| 15 | The man was treated by paramedics before being taken to Arrowe Park Hospital . |
| 16 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 17 | The woman , who has not yet been named but is aged about 50 , was trapped in her car and had to be freed by firemen before being taken to hospital with back and neck injuries . |
| 18 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 19 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 20 | If someone dies in hospital , they may rest in the hospital mortuary , or the funeral director will arrange for the body to be taken to the chapel of rest . |
| 21 | Everyone has the right to a church funeral , and for the body to be taken to the church , but it is not necessary to have a service at a funeral whether it is a burial or a cremation . |
| 22 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 23 | We moved from the orchard taking the prisoners with us and leaving the wounded to be taken to the rear . |
| 24 | On the other hand agricultural land is fixed so that beasts and tools have to be taken to the fields and then off them . |
| 25 | I refused to be taken to school , but every morning before I left , the other wives would come and put make-up all over my face – – bright red lipstick and things . |
| 26 | ASOFTLY-SOFTLY approach is to be taken to the owners of one of Britain 's strangest threatened landscapes , the Clint-and-Gryke limestone pavements of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 27 | Nine o'clock for someone to be taken to — ’ ( It was the day-care centre for the very old — those no longer able to manage for themselves . ) |
| 28 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 29 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |
| 30 | Still reflecting on buns , my favourite food , I called a taxi and in lordly tones asked to be taken to Lansdowne Road , home of Jazz News magazine . |