Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 2 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 3 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 4 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 5 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 6 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 7 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 8 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 9 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 10 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 11 | This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door . |
| 12 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 13 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 14 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 15 | I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it . |
| 16 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 17 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 18 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 19 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 20 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 21 | In doing a campaign that takes you around the country on tour you may visit the local newspaper , talk to a consumer group , make a speech over a special lunch for local important big-wigs and then do an interview on the local radio . |
| 22 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 23 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 24 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 25 | In the transplant operation , doctors in London will extract some of her bone marrow and take it to the Netherlands . |
| 26 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 27 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 28 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 29 | I took the collar off , removed the stones , put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet . |
| 30 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |