Example sentences of "was taken [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she was taken on for six months by the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the children 's ward . |
| 2 | Much of the debt was taken on to pay for Standa , a supermarket chain , and the Mondadori publishing empire . |
| 3 | Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera . |
| 4 | Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites . |
| 5 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 6 | Philip was taken on as a sort of pupil-teacher , helping with the children and also furthering his own education . |
| 7 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 8 | When the earl died without male issue in 1373 , he was taken on as a king 's knight by Edward III who , in addition to confirming the earl 's grant , awarded him an annuity for life of £50 . |
| 9 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 10 | The postman was taken on in September 1990 and resigned recently . |
| 11 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 12 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 13 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 14 | But , in fact , in the same way as the very ambitious career woman of today risks becoming detached from her home surroundings , so it must have been extremely difficult in the past for upper-class ladies , running homes that were full of servants , to put personal qualities into the home when all the physical work was taken on by others . |
| 15 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |
| 16 | The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers . |
| 17 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |
| 18 | On the following day the portfolio was taken on by Ali Bozer , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State currently responsible for Turkey 's relations with the European Communities . |
| 19 | Responsibility for Housing and Works was taken on by Adriaan Vlok , who retained his position as Minister of Correctional Services but relinquished the Ministry for the Budget to Org Marais . |
| 20 | About a dozen mental patients going through rehabilitation in Aylesbury have been working on the boat which was taken on by the Dandelion Trust . |
| 21 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 22 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 23 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |
| 24 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 25 | Much of the game was taken up with mauls which an alert French referee often had to turn into scrums . |
| 26 | I said I thought a great deal of time was taken up with Committees . |
| 27 | Though the Cabinet is supposed to be a decisive body , much of its time [ in 1955 ] was taken up with postponing decisions : whether to legislate against immigrants from the Caribbean or of Indian ancestry ; whether to help the Egyptians build the Aswan High Dam ; what to do about Cyprus or Malta , about admitting Japan to GATT [ the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ] , about the textile market , about the death penalty . |
| 28 | Once in government in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Hall 's deregulatory message was taken up with alacrity . |
| 29 | Our earnings were very small ; all our spare money was taken up with buying books , toys and other artefacts like feeding bottles , christening clothes and plastic rattles . |
| 30 | A larger room was taken up with the endless daily washing that miners ' wives were obliged to do . |