Example sentences of "[noun] [be] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 2 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 3 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 5 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 6 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 7 | Everyone is being extra nice to me and , best of all , Pa is taking me to the yard tomorrow . |
| 8 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 9 | Alison 's taking her in the van . |