Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] take [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a useful member of the West 's military alliance , and in 1981 they persuaded a hesitant European Community to take them in as full members . |
| 2 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 3 | This splendid Sovereign tour takes you to the historic areas of Upper Egypt and the treasures of the Nile Valley . |
| 4 | Everyone at the Palace was pleased when Mel won an FA Cup winner 's medal with Southampton in 1976 , but he re-appeared briefly in our colours on loan in the winter of 1977–78 and his extra half-dozen games took him into the elite group of those who have played over 250 first class matches for our club . |
| 5 | Their migration route to the Alaskan feeding grounds takes them through an area of ocean which is cluttered with drift-nets . |
| 6 | RUGBY SCHOOL 's ambitious Antipodean tour took them from the birthplace of the game in England to Nelson , where the first game of rugby was played in New Zealand between the Nelson club and Nelson College in 1870 . |
| 7 | The Champ , who retired six years , was an institution and his extraordinary finishing burst took him to 20 track records . |
| 8 | " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . " |
| 9 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |