Example sentences of "had [be] take from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days . |
| 2 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days , and found glowing ash — ‘ evidence ’ of destroyed papers . |
| 3 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days , and said they had found glowing ash as evidence that papers had been destroyed . |
| 4 | Mr Dragseth had been taken from his home at gunpoint by pro-Noriega supporters on the day after the invasion . |
| 5 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 6 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 7 | At the diet of princes in Frankfurt ( 1147 ) he demanded the return of Bavaria , which had been taken from his father by Emperor Conrad III and bestowed upon an Austrian vassal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I watched the re-run of the race on the big stadium scoreboard , checked that I had run second and then went back under to collect my kit from the airless , sweat-filled room where it had been taken from the start . |
| 10 | She did n't understand why she had been taken from them when they loved her and wanted to keep her . |
| 11 | Bill felt like a weight had been taken from him now that he 'd told her . |
| 12 | This included the case of the nine South Ronaldsay children who had been taken from their homes at dawn on 27 February . |
| 13 | Too much had been taken from the ethos of the boys ' schools , including blazers and ties , which are hangovers from male attire of the Edwardian era . |
| 14 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 15 | And he had been taken from them . |
| 16 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 17 | When Mushtaq added Lamb 's wicket , lbw to a straightish one which hardly left the ground , much of the heart had been taken from England 's line-up , and the lead was a mere 99 , five down . |
| 18 | There were indications that some articles had been taken from the Soviet Union 's constitution but there was little evidence of other constitutions having been consulted except , curiously , for the Meiji constitution in Japan . |
| 19 | Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist . |
| 20 | Ruth 's thoughts flinched from what it must feel like to be Fand — she seemed hardly to exist , so much had been taken from her . |
| 21 | She had been still recovering her wits when Elaine had been taken from the booth by two more of the misshapen , black-robed , gurgling Counsellors . |
| 22 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 23 | A determination to get back what had been taken from them . |
| 24 | The gun had been taken from the RUC officer in Dundonald in 1988 . |
| 25 | The prosecution say the wedding ring and the chain had been taken from Mrs McGurk by Hagans after he 'd strangled her and hidden her body in undergrowth . |
| 26 | The car had been taken from a carpark in Oxford shortly before the crash on the Woodstock Road . |
| 27 | But , minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89-year-old discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 28 | But minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89 year old lady discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 29 | But minutes after the trio left , the 89-year-old woman discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom . |
| 30 | Det Sgt Martyn Lowrie said tools and equipment had been taken from homes in Evenwood , Crook and Ramshaw . |