Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She wanted to stay awake to listen for the taxi coming to take them to the airport . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The King wanted to take me round the garden . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 15 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 16 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 17 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , acknowledged that his record-breaking journey had taken him to the limits of his endurance . |
| 18 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 19 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 20 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
| 21 | James ' research for this brilliant book had taken him to the archives at Bordeaux , whereupon he discovered that his fellow Trinidadian , Eric Williams , had been there before him . |
| 22 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 23 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 24 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |
| 25 | I was just building up my first business then , and a thing like that is a bit like riding a roller-coaster — you need all the speed you can collect on the downhill runs to take you over the next hump . |
| 26 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |