Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The King wanted to take me round the garden . |
| 7 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 10 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , acknowledged that his record-breaking journey had taken him to the limits of his endurance . |
| 11 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 12 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 15 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 16 | 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 . |