How to use "taken" in a sentence

By 6.00 pm, I have taken off more of the boulder in three hours than I did in four days

It has taken me two and a half hours to travel six kilometres

Fellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, to be taken by the President "before he enters on the execution of his office."

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

He told me that Mr Slinkton had taken his two nieces to Italy for their health

She was taken to the police station, where Inspector Javert, the chief of police, sent her to prison for six months.

After escaping from Montreuil, Jean Valjean had taken all his money from the bank and buried it in a forest near Montfermeil

Her sister has taken her to hospital, but they'll be back soon.'

Leblanc was tied up and taken to the bed.

When everybody had been arrested and taken from the room, Javert noticed the prisoner, who was standing, head bowed, by the window

The ground floor of the wine shop became a hospital for the wounded, and the bodies of the dead were taken to an alley near the smaller of the two barricades

'You can wear these.' Enjolras pointed to the National Guard uniforms that had been taken off the dead soldiers.

'They've taken me prisoner,' he thought, moments before losing consciousness

Marius had indeed been taken prisoner, but not by the soldiers

Valjean had taken no part in the battle

My body must be taken to the house of my grandfather, M

The poor man, unable to understand the kindness and gentle nature of the man he had spent his whole life hating, had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge

It had taken years for Gran to make her garden because it was so difficult to find soil or plants, but she had made some soil with rotten vegetables and fruit, and slowly found bits and pieces here and there

All the screens had been taken away

So my last morning was to be taken away from me

She says that Robert must have taken it or broken it

'He's taken one of the sailors to hospital,' Frank told me

We were taken by surprise when Frith brought the magistrate into the library.

Sickened, grief-stricken, she had taken their advice, and Danny's funeral had been a closed-coffin service

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

On four or five occasions during the past two weeks, she had taken the pistol from the nightstand and searched the place, room by room, but she hadn't found anyone

Jaborski, the scoutmaster, had taken other groups of scouts on winter survival hikes every year for sixteen years, and no one had been even slightly injured

Besides, for the past twenty-one years, ever since her Harry died, she had always taken care of herself

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

The game minimum was a five-dollar bet, and all seven seats were taken

He can't relieve himself, and he has to be taken to the hospital and catheterized."

"For one thing, nothing was taken."

You could have taken Danny away for the weekend if you didn't want to be near me

You could have taken him down to Disneyland for a couple days

Every winter for sixteen years, he had taken a group of scouts to northern Nevada, beyond Reno, into the High Sierras, on a seven-day wilderness survival excursion.

All those years they'd taken kids into the mountains, nobody was even scratched."

All the talk about death and fear and madness and pain seemed to have taken place further back in the past than a mere few seconds ago

He was afraid Tina Evans would be taken away from him just as Nancy had been.

Determined not to let them see that he was frightened, aware that any sign of fear would be taken as proof of weakness, Elliot said, "Well, you've got one hell of a weird approach for someone who's just taking a public opinion survey."

Curious about the story from which the illustration had been taken, Tina stepped to the box again to pluck out the graphic novel

The entire battle had taken less than ten seconds.

Evidently, he wasn't carrying a gun, and he was impressed by the speed and ease with which his partner had been taken out of action.

He had taken pleasure in stalking human prey; hell, there had even been a measure of joy in being stalked, for it gave him the opportunity to prove himself by outwitting the hunter on his trail

She wanted to see what would happen next if no one interfered with the presence that had taken control of the jukebox

The marked ticket in his hand was worthless; he hadn't taken it to the betting window, hadn't wagered any money on it

Meanwhile, we're checking out Stryker's associates in his law firm, his friends, the woman's friends, anyone with whom they might have taken refuge."

"That's taken care of," Alexander assured him

Then as he had signed for the rental car and picked up the keys from the night clerk, he had kept one hand in a pocket of his coat, gripping the handgun he'd taken off Vince in Las Vegas - but there was no trouble.

They had taken only two steps from the window when Elliot saw the snow move no more than twenty feet from them

During the first year, he'd taken commercial flights or rented the services of a trustworthy private pilot who could fly the conventional twin-engine craft that Alexander's predecessor had managed to pry out of the Network's budget

"The next time I read a story in the newspaper about some guy, who says he was picked up in a flying saucer and taken on a tour of the universe, I won't be so quick to laugh

Eventually, after a bad first draft, he was taken off the project when he missed several extensions of his contractual deadline

I received a death threat by phone the night before the arbitration - I can't say for certain that it was from the writer; the voice was so deep that it might have been his mother - and the next morning the law firm handling the studio's case assured me that they had taken extra security measures for the meeting

Considering the fearsome number of meetings I had to sit through, my per-hour wage penciled out at less than I would have made if I had taken a part-time job at McDonald's.

I picked it up - and recognized it as my pistol! And I just thought Anne must have taken it, meaning to shoot herself because she was so unhappy

'So, almost anyone might have taken it.'

'I've taken Mrs Protheroe home,' he called

She was sitting there and saying very loudly that she had never taken a suitcase to the woods.

'Because Haydock has taken Hawes to hospital.'

Either you or Mr Hawes must have taken it

She had at last told the police that she had taken the suitcase to the woods, but had thought she was protecting Dr Stone's archaeological discoveries from his enemies.

It was the owner of the pub, whose cart I had taken.

If I had been alone, I think I would have taken my chance and gone straight across country

They were taken through Barnet and were more than a kilometer beyond the centre of the town before they could fight their way across to the other side of the road.

Most of the space inside their bodies was taken by the brain

The death of the man outside had taken away all his powers of thought

The Martians had taken away the digging-machine and apart from the fighting-machine on the far side of the pit and a building- machine that was busy out of my sight, the pit was empty

The Martians had taken everything

I went into a couple of the houses, looking for food, but all of it had already been taken

And they've taken over the capital of the most powerful country in the world

It has taken away our confidence in the future, which was making us soft; it has given great help to science, and it has made us think of human beings as one family.

Or was it Wednesday? When I came home from the office, you and James had taken Akosua out

He had probably taken a candle with him into the vestry, because by then it was dark

She was taken to a hospital in the United Kingdom.

In many countries, women's fight to be in sports has taken longer