Example sentences of "take [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 The name Santa Claus comes from Saint Nicholas , the patron saint of children , who takes present to Dutch children on December 6 .
2 Your mother 's been very good sitting with them , and the girl across the road takes Molly to school and brings her home . ’
3 The only all-First Division tie of the round takes Maesteg to the Arms Park to take on top of the table Cardiff .
4 The army takes aid to the needy .
5 He is looking at services offered by the council and his drawings include the mobile bus which takes books to isolated farmhouses .
6 La Befana is the Italian version of Babushka who takes presents to Russian children .
7 ‘ Elizabeth always takes Angharad to the Agricultural Fair for a treat .
8 The arched openings provide access to a lightweight stair which takes visitors to a mezzanine level linking with the ground floor office space .
9 Now it takes courage to be that sloppily sentimental .
10 It seems safest to conclude that this symbiotic relationship is the norm , but that it takes place to varying degrees according to policy , place and circumstance .
11 Thus , although examining magistrates may conduct a fresh investigation and take a detached look at the police evidence , it is difficult to establish whether this takes place to any serious extent .
12 Sir Bedivere takes Arthur to a chapel —
13 Dan Sperber takes Lévi-Strauss to task for claiming that kinship systems should be regarded as a language with the circulation of women taking the place of the circulation of words :
14 Welfare Assistant takes S to medical room .
15 Mrs McGill fries bread for breakfast , takes Chas to bed , cooks supper , lights oil lamp and nurses Nana .
16 The final pressure reduction is to about 50 millibars to supply the local network , which then takes gas to individual properties .
17 She misses it on Monday cos she goes to flute , she misses it , she wa- she sees it on Tuesday cos Chris takes Amy to ballet , she was , she misses it on Wednesday cos she goes skiing , she misses it on Thursday because we have to take Amy to uhum Brownies , she misses it on Friday cos of Amy 's swimming .
18 Commenting upon the teaching of reading the report takes teachers to task for effectively teaching the mechanics of reading but failing in the process to help children recognise that reading was ‘ something that people did for pleasure , .
19 This is a classic finding in the history of any kind of innovation — that it takes challenges to beliefs to achieve a breakthrough .
20 George Michael takes Sony to court
21 He then takes Keith to his morning nursery class .
22 The caution takes Mohan to 21 points and a one-match ban that will rule him out of the home game against Barnsley .
23 ‘ You will be surprised to hear that a young boy takes food to the prisoner .
24 Greenpeace takes NRA to court
25 De Pace says he no longer takes tourists to Ramsay Street .
26 It takes pragmatism to be the content of a vast , overarching convention that judges should decide cases in the pragmatist way .
27 Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel .
28 She takes exception to a story of his about a Jewish Communist , an inhabitant of the camps , who fasts there on Yom Kippur .
29 Hirst ( 1976 ) takes exception to Althusser theorizing the ISAs as the means by which the relations of production are reproduced .
30 1984 : Shock horror as authority takes exception to the amount of obscenity on record .
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