Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 2 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 3 | PICASSO keeps taking me to the Rotonde , ’ the rising young poet Jean Cocteau wrote to a friend in 1916 . |
| 4 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 5 | Some shops have taken it off the shelves . |
| 6 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 7 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 8 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 9 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 10 | IT is probably unwise to record in print that a man who is not your lawfully wedded husband has taken you to the heights of unbridled rapture . |
| 11 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 12 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 13 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |
| 14 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 15 | She wanted to stay awake to listen for the taxi coming to take them to the airport . |
| 16 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |
| 17 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 18 | The King wanted to take me round the garden . |
| 19 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 20 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 21 | Every harvest festival his father had taken him to the Salvation Army hall in Thurso and was generous in his support when the Salvationists needed to rebuild their hall . |
| 22 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 23 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 24 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 25 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 26 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 27 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , acknowledged that his record-breaking journey had taken him to the limits of his endurance . |
| 28 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 29 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 30 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |