Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 2 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 3 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |
| 4 | This prevented the girl 's parents taking her away from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend . |
| 5 | The main route directions take you back to the starting point , Staveley , though this means the final five miles of the circuit are spent moving away from the real Lake District . |
| 6 | Jessica 's grandparents took her out for the day as father-of-four Mr Egerton , of Enfield , north London , recovered from Friday 's ordeal . |
| 7 | Pat 's Jester 's defeat at Haydock yesterday has led Corals to take him out of the King George betting . |
| 8 | ‘ One of our sergeants took him out of the river about six o'clock this morning , a mile and a half downstream from here . |
| 9 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 10 | Four Dopplemayr chairlifts take you up from the hotel at 2,000m to the summit at 3,000m . |
| 11 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 12 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 13 | All the same , Lorraine McAslan on Collins Classics takes us deeper inside the music , while Nigel Clayton does not make Lonquich 's mistake of crossing the border between passion and brutality . |
| 14 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 15 | Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party . |
| 16 | Otago made a brave challenge , led by Mike Brewer in his first appearance since a series of injuries took him out of the All Black tour of Australia . |
| 17 | In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers . |
| 18 | He then spent three days at Fort King being questioned by people from the DIA , the FBI , the CIA and the DEA , and after that a bunch of US Marshals took him away into the Federal Witness Protection program . |
| 19 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |