Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 2 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 3 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 4 | This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door . |
| 5 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 6 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 7 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 8 | I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it . |
| 9 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 10 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 11 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 12 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 13 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 14 | He picks up the Business Section of the Times and takes it into the kitchen . |
| 15 | If she does create a new four-bead group , she ‘ wins ’ these four beads and takes them off the board , leaving the hole empty . |
| 16 | Her nanny had other ideas and took her by the hand . |
| 17 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 18 | All the tulips and roses he patiently drained and crushed , then sealed their exhumed corpses and took them in the paper bag to the store for money . |
| 19 | The inspector removed the cats and took them to the RSPCA home in Martlesham . |
| 20 | ‘ You can let me join Brownies and take me to the Pack Meetings at Botley every week , ’ she stated emphatically . |
| 21 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 22 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 23 | So if you have young children you might be able to make some garments and take them to the Play Group — if the leader will let you ! |
| 24 | Langbaurgh Council 's refuse collection service will pick up sacks full of plastic carriers and take them to the British Visqueen factory in Stockton for recycling . |