Example sentences of "[be] take [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 No formal action can be taken on them through the UCAS scheme until after 25 July .
2 Will any of their existing rights be taken from them under the new arrangements ?
3 But erm er it was a a nice sum to be to take with you to the fair .
4 His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating .
5 As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion .
6 The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador .
7 Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II .
8 Indeed , they may ( unwittingly ) hide the reality so that no account is taken of it in the forecast .
9 Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab .
10 Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House .
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