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Example sentences for "was taken"

  • He was taken to the house of Senor Francisco Galeochoa at Posedas, and was there discovered to have a tail ten inches long.

  • He spoke more tranquilly as the narrative proceeded, as though his rage had died down once the resolve to act on it was taken.

  • And he was taken in, and used to discourse on them by the hour.

  • And it was precisely by the girl's candor, her directness, her lack of complications, that he was taken.

  • They had even remained faithful to their king when he was taken prisoner by the French Emperor and they had refused to recognise Joseph Bonaparte, who had in the year 1808 been made King of Spain by order of his brother.

  • I was taken to a children's ball at St. James's Palace.

  • Beyond this I was taken off my feet by the stream; and only with difficulty did I once more regain the land.

  • On Sundays, if fine, I was taken to a Protestant church in Paris; not infrequently to the Embassy.

  • Once he escaped and fled, but he was taken in Toboso, and brought back.

  • Perhaps it was taken, without leave, by some person who regarded it as public property because it had once figured under Liberty Tree.

  • A vast concourse of people heard the oath, and shouted when it was taken.

  • In 1710 Port Royal, a fortress of Acadia, was taken by the English.

  • So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 40:37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

  • How Sir Ector followed for to seek Sir Launcelot, and how he was taken by Sir Turquine.

  • And so Sir Launcelot departed, and by adventure he came into the same forest there he was taken sleeping.

  • I was taken to the opening of one of these banks in a neighbouring town, and saw a large assemblage of cashiers and managers.

  • The magistrate then made me another speech, whereon I was taken to a building hard by, which I soon discovered to be the common prison of the town, but in which an apartment was assigned me separate from the other prisoners.

  • I was taken to the principal house, which seemed to belong to the people who had captured me.

  • Now as soon as the enemy perceived that the mountain was taken, they banished all thought of sleep, and kept many watch-fires blazing throughout the night.

  • But Zeus sent amazement on the inhabitants thereof, and so it was taken.

  • If it were, I denie her Virginitie: I was taken with a Maide Fer.

  • Nay, I was taken vp, for laying them downe.

  • Ile no more drumming, a plague of all drummes, onely to seeme to deserue well, and to beguile the supposition of that lasciuious yong boy the Count, haue I run into this danger: yet who would haue suspected an ambush where I was taken?

  • I was taken with none sir, I was taken with a Damosell Fer.

  • And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was taken by the people; yea, the Son of the everlasting God was judged of the world; and I saw and bear record.

  • At the loud threats of that all furious knight, By whom he so was taken unawares, Martan' turns pale and trembles like a leaf, Nor how to act or answer knows the thief.

  • I was taken prisoner," said he, "but the king gave me my life and liberty, and told me to say to thee that he will soon be here.

  • He was taken away, and thrown head foremost down; but there was sea under him, and he sank under the water.

  • Queen Ragnhild the Mighty lived three years after she came to Norway; and, after her death, her son and King Harald's was taken to the herse Thorer Hroaldson, and Eirik was fostered by him.

  • Then Svein proceeded to Norway, and his mother Alfifa was with him; and he was taken to be king at every Law-thing in the country.

  • Before I was taken ill my chief object was to make myself attractive to the people I met And the easiest way to do that was to dress becomingly and make myself look as well as I could.

  • MAY 14-It is now two weeks since little Raymond was taken sick, and I have lived in the nursery all the time, though Aunty has tried to make me go out.

  • This morning, just as the doctor shuffled in on his big feet, it came over me how ridiculously I must have looked the day I was taken sick, being walked off between Aunty and himself, crying like a baby.

  • After the way I behaved the day I was taken sick, I have been ashamed to look you in the face.

  • In unlacing the senor's helmet, the evening that he was taken prisoner, I was unlucky enough to twitch his mustachios.

  • So, as it was ordained, he was taken in the fact.

  • In a few months after his arrival at Constance he discovered his error, but it was too late; endeavoring to escape, he was taken, put into prison, and compelled to renounce the papacy.

  • From thence the king went to Gaeta, which as soon as his liberation had become known, was taken possession of by some nobles of his party.

  • While occupied with these deliberations, Carlo, lord of Faenza, was taken ill, and tears were entertained for his life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    armed men; better able; better life; certain words; each others; fight against; given the; native cloth; ordinary circumstances; ranch house; take care; tarry here; this people; was afraid; was good; was not; was the; wash their; wash well; washed away; waste away; waste land; waste lands; waste matter; waste paper; waste products