Example sentences of "they have been taken [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is ideal for draining vegetables once they 've been taken off the hob .
2 They claim they 've been taken for a ride .
3 The Hawick policeman told me it was a very serious accident in which Moira , Rachel , Fiona and Alastair had all been involved : they had been taken to different hospitals but he did not know the extent of their injuries or any other details .
4 Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house .
5 And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age .
6 Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support .
7 An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area .
8 Sad to report , then , that they have been taken into the studio with this album and produced .
9 They have been taken across the border — illegally .
10 Although the women prisoners have not been subjected to the brutal beatings and searches which have taken place in the men 's prisons , they have been taken to the National Police headquarters for interrogation under torture .
11 Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’
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