Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match resumed and the two sides remained locked in fairly even combat until , in the last few minutes , a goal-mouth scramble enabled the home team to snatch the solitary goal and two points that would take them nowhere near the top of their league . |
| 2 | The friend says : ‘ Well , if I were you I 'd take them straight to the zoo . ’ |
| 3 | Since this line of flight would take them straight to the pioneer party of 200-300 already assembled on the traditional Witney site , I wondered whether this was their destination . |
| 4 | ‘ I could take them out to the middle of a lake in a boat and drop them in . |
| 5 | ‘ The latest idea is to actually take them out to the hairdresser 's or shopping , so that happens every month without fail , sometimes more often . |
| 6 | After that , the Cypriot police would take them out to the airport and put them on flights to Frankfurt , where the bag-switch routine used by ‘ legitimate ’ smugglers was employed to bypass the airport 's security arrangements and load the ‘ dirty suitcases on to trans-Atlantic flights . |
| 7 | Should I take them out of the tank ? |
| 8 | ‘ I would just take them out into the park behind the studios , no matter what the weather . |
| 9 | We 'll take them out in the car , go for a ride , and leave them somewhere with their throats cut . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 11 | and we can take them down to the Christmas school fare . |
| 12 | The Scots , their mission completed , packed coffers and chests and prepared to leave , intending to go under safe conduct to Yarmouth where their ships would take them back to the Port of Leith in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | I 've committed myself to writing some notes on it in cooperation with you so that we can take them back to the group next week to discuss with the others . |
| 14 | I 'll just take them back to the stall then . |
| 15 | And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk . |
| 16 | Do n't take me right to the party , drop me off at Sam 's . |
| 17 | ‘ But since it 's obvious that I do n't have a bloody army at my back you can take me directly to the Countess , or the Sheriff of Gloucester , if he 's here . ’ |
| 18 | Ca n't you just take me back to the life your friends stole me from ? ’ |
| 19 | He stopped and said he would take me back to the Hall . |
| 20 | Ye need somebody tae speak for ye , tae take ye in by the hand . ’ |
| 21 | A walk to the Hadi Gari Bar down by the harbour will take you right through the hustle and bustle of the narrow streets of the old town and can take as little as five minutes , although you 'll be hard pressed not to be distracted by the jewellery , leather and clothes offered by street vendors at every corner . |
| 22 | The moment the weather improves I 'll take you over to the mainland and get that X-ray done . |
| 23 | And we 've allowed for the fact that cooking for a family or organising a dinner party may take you away from the cooker when you want the food to go on cooking . |
| 24 | A cable car will take you most of the way . |
| 25 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 26 | Some may take you back to the nursery . |
| 27 | I can take you back to the Embassy and you can ring up from there . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I will take you back to the cage … and in the morning I will give the order that you are to be called by any name you want . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I will take you back to the farm . ’ |
| 30 | An overdraft can be a cheap way to borrow if you have a regular monthly pay cheque which will take you out of the red so you can stop paying interest until you overdraw again . |