Example sentences of "taking [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 2 | The drift of my rhetoric might seem to be taking me towards a traditional defence of literature , of the imagination , of creativity , of humane values in general . |
| 3 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 4 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 5 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 7 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not taking you to an uncivilised place , Jenna , ’ he murmured . |
| 9 | Is it taking you in the right direction ? |
| 10 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 12 | GUNMEN killed an Irish nurse yesterday when they attacked a convoy taking her to a new assignment in Baidoa , a Somali towns at the centre of the famine region . |
| 13 | I know I should be thinking about taking her to a mother-and-toddler group so she can meet people and make friends , but something keeps putting me off . |
| 14 | He said he did everything he could to calm Farrow down , including on two occasions taking her to the exclusive Carlyle Hotel and sleeping with her after she begged him to do so . |
| 15 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 16 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 17 | Did Eve hate the Westwards who were so rich for not taking her into the big house ? |
| 18 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 19 | Is there any point taking it to a local Sainsburys ? |
| 20 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 21 | That way , the same effect can be achieved without taking it to the full depth . |
| 22 | ‘ Good , ’ Belinda nodded , taking it as a polite enquiry that did n't require a detailed response . |
| 23 | I told Michael Quirke how a heron had once nearly landed on my back in Wales , and he was mightily impressed , taking it as a good luck omen . |
| 24 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 25 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 27 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
| 28 | After a roof-top walkabout on the terraces we viewed ‘ Towards 2000 ’ a promotional video describing the dramatic changes that are taking place at the £500m investment site of Terminal 2 , part of a complex that employs over 10,000 people ( 30,000 projected for the year 2005 ) and is set to expand with a second runway taking it from a regional role into the top 20 of world airports . |
| 29 | 2 oranges ( one to eat , one for when children say : ‘ What happened in an orangery ? ’ so that one can say ; ‘ They grew oranges — oh , look here 's one ! , taking it from a Greek statue 's ear ) |
| 30 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |