Example sentences of "[be] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often bad things happen after — you know , like you 're taken away to school , or they tell you someone died or summat like that . |
| 2 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 3 | ‘ The main difference between cricket and rugby now is that they 're both more competitive , which means they 're taken too seriously . |
| 4 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 5 | Using drugs can be dangerous , especially when they 're taken in excess or for a long time , or in the wrong combinations . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're taken sick — this is no infirmary , Miss Malcolm — ‘ |
| 7 | After that , you 're taken back upstairs , but to a different wing and a different room . |
| 8 | You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you . |
| 9 | But that machine can be doing , say eight curtains , coming off a bottom roller , being woven over and onto another one , till they 're taken off . |
| 10 | reasonable contributions you may make towards transport costs if you 're taken to or from the hospital by a local voluntary car scheme or similar arrangement |
| 11 | So if we are to have a consistent regional planning framework , that should be weighed in the balance as to whether they 're taken into account in North Yorkshire . |
| 12 | If they 're taken away I 'll be finished . |
| 13 | That 's the old seed they 're taken there |
| 14 | No , taken them , they 're taken to be professionals though are n't they ? |
| 15 | The long arm of the law is reaching a bit too close for comfort if you 're taken short in sunny Singapore . |
| 16 | This attitude — stressing the instrumental value of a degree course-is taken to its extreme in the following quote , where a student who wants to take up materials science is criticizing physical science : |
| 17 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 18 | Care has to be taken by a critic in any of these cases to describe works as definitely as possible . |
| 19 | Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’ |
| 20 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 23 | The piece needs to be taken at a good pace and in high spirits . |
| 24 | Secondly , there is the problem of the Northern catholic community , which tends to be taken as a monolithic nationalist community . |
| 25 | An example of this can be taken from the recent contraception controversy in the Republic , which began in the 1960s . |
| 26 | The way these various aspects of current Roman catholic social teaching were presented in the Irish constitution can hardly be taken as fulfilment of the need to reflect the opinions of the majority of the republic 's population . |
| 27 | However , it is the further legitimation given to a particular socio-ethical form of political religion in the constitution and to the implied authority of religious intellectuals in deciding in concreto what must be taken by the state as in the interests of the common good which gives to conflict in Ireland between the two alliances its political religious dimension in the sphere of law . |
| 28 | This can be taken either as a criticism of the actual teaching of the subject or as a remark on the ineffectiveness of schooling on such attitudes in the Northern Ireland context . |
| 29 | And by this stage in this commentary , he wrote , there is no need to qualify the words success , triumph , and the rest , qualifications can be taken as read . |
| 30 | Do not be taken in by current usage . |