Sentence examples for while taken from inspiring English sources

He was, for a while, taken in by an abusive relative, and during this period he was subjected to, witnessed, and committed terrible violence — so terrible that, even to his trusted fiancée, he will not speak of it.

As Bloomberg said in his speech, New York's decline and fall was for a long while taken for granted, as a fact of nature — and it is a useful reminder to pious liberals of the limits of liberal pieties that the unobtainable cure turned out to be a lot less hard to find than those pieties claimed.

The original Taken opened in 2009 with first weekend receipts of $24.7m, while Taken 2 debuted in 2012 with $49.5m.

These qualities, while taken for granted and even admired in men, seem not to be acceptable in women and must be masked behind a facade of niceness.

This lively account of the classical Olympics portrays them as "the Woodstock of antiquity," and claims that the Games, while taken seriously, were also where Greeks gathered for a five-day debauch.

And while taken as a set text by any number of heavyweights who know a lot better, its homophobia has gone some way to discrediting the genre in more polite musical circles.

And he said that the decision to make the Office for National Statistics ONSS) independent, while taken out of an understandable wish to end political interference, had proved to be "a mistake" because the ONS now sat in a "God-like role" when it decided what did and did not score as public borrowing.

Once in a while, take a break.