Example sentences of "takes [pron] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 2 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 3 | One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands . |
| 4 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 5 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 6 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 7 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 8 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |