Example sentences of "being taken [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social interviews can vary from a candidate being taken over to the pub for a drink and a sandwich , so that future colleagues can see whether or not the newcomer will fit in , to full-scale formal affairs . |
| 2 | A man from the local education authority , after being taken over to the pub by Mr Malik , had announced his intention of sending his own son to the school . |
| 3 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 4 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 5 | You never hear of groups being taken over by the drummer . |
| 6 | By the late twenties and early thirties , ‘ bus travel had taken over most of this lucrative Friday traffic ; Basfords of Towcester ran two ‘ buses and The Buckingham Orange did two return journeys from Buckingham with Jelley 's of Cosgrove , the latter two being taken over by the United Counties Bus Company in the mid-1930s . |
| 7 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 8 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 9 | It 's now being taken over by the new Historic Chapels Trust . |
| 10 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 11 | It 's even less taking up i i er land being taken up in the region as a whole , it 's even less in terms of the U K. |
| 12 | Just how many are helped is a question now being taken up by the Lawson Wilkins ; : Society a group of paediatric endocrinologists . |
| 13 | Most of them must first pass through a stage of being used within LE by black speakers , before being taken up by the LE speaking community as a whole . |
| 14 | Designed as a ‘ fun ’ aeroplane it first flew in 1934 or 1935 , subsequently being taken on by the Soviet Air Force as the standard advanced trainer for fighter pilots with production totalling 1,241 by early 1940 . |
| 15 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 16 | He 's studying for a PHD in Biophysics aOOxford university and next year he 's being taken on by the American space agency NASA . |
| 17 | The work will not mean any new workers being taken on by the developer of the Tees Offshore Base , housed in the former Smiths Dock . |
| 18 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book mentioned a private road that ‘ at the time of writing ’ no objection was made to vehicles being taken along to the base of the walk . |
| 19 | Tonight 's match will be Fashanu 's first since being taken off in the original match at Goodison Park . |
| 20 | Not being taken in by the belief that " help " of one kind or another really is helpful : it may actually hinder someone else 's growth towards maturity . |
| 21 | The poet mocks the people for being taken in by the priest but lays the blame on the shoulders of the priest and ultimately on the church for failing to do its duty . |
| 22 | Tommy 's being taken out to the car . |
| 23 | On the other hand , global warming is likely to produce more precipitation over the icecaps , notably Antarctica 's , which would mean that water was being taken out of the oceans and stored as ice . |
| 24 | They 're obviously being continually carried in from the river water but are being taken out of the system somewhere in the marine environment . |
| 25 | North-westerly from the cross-cut the level was driven 20 fathoms to another cross-course and a good bunch of ore was being taken out of the floor with overhead stoping in progress . |
| 26 | They will , for example , know how to alert immigration officers at all ports and airports to the possibility of a child being taken out of the country . |
| 27 | No restriction would be placed on the amount in lei being taken out of the country for visits to other COMECON countries . |
| 28 | With the risk of public anger being taken out on the dying , frontline activism is simply a luxury we can not afford . |
| 29 | This gives filtration in depth , the larger particles being taken out near the surface and the finer ones lower down resulting in greater filtration capacity . |
| 30 | She could do with being taken down to the tennis courts probably and have a knock up . |