Example sentences of "[noun sg] and take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’
2 He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up .
3 He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition .
4 Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street .
5 In the transplant operation , doctors in London will extract some of her bone marrow and take it to the Netherlands .
6 He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea .
7 I took the collar off , removed the stones , put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet .
8 Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road .
9 Prune out the stem and take it into the shed where you can sit down comfortably to prepare the cuttings — they will have to be made very carefully , and you will need a very sharp knife .
10 The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation .
11 Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development .
12 That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see .
13 ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound .
14 Then she picked up the wicker bird cage and took it to the sill .
15 After you 've dropped me , come back and collect the bicycle and take it to the police .
16 He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ .
17 Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’
18 David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them .
19 And then later on the script she ha to say he had to say to her well , call her , you leave her and if she does n't come to you that 's not your dog and take her to the pound and have her put down .
20 Make a coffin and take it to the
21 Before it could , I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room .
22 He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray .
23 Paul did not , or affected not to , hear her and Erika walked across the yard and took him by the elbow .
24 And he 'd clip them on the clip them on the rope and take 'em to the pit bottom .
25 One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face .
26 She swept up her empty plate and took it into the kitchen , and departed upstairs with her cup of tea to start on her coiffure .
27 But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly .
28 The steward answered Agrippa 's insistent knocking and took us into the main hallway .
29 She put the page of the newspaper with her letter and took it to the station .
30 He reached for Pie and took him by the throat .
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