Example sentences of "[vb past] take the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was in the water about 20 minutes before being fished out into a lifeboat and eventually two destroyers arrived to take the survivors to Reyjavik . |
| 2 | ‘ So I threatened to take the case to court . ’ |
| 3 | The TUC was last night seeking legal advice and threatened to take the Government to court for alleged breach of European law , claiming that scrapping the councils discriminated against women . |
| 4 | Casey paid a monthly sum for the child 's upkeep , but in 1990 Murphy threatened to take the matter to court and Casey paid her a lump sum of US$115,000 . |
| 5 | I decided to take the bus to Strandhill , on Sligo Bay , and follow the road in a circle around Queen Maeve 's hill of Knocknarea . |
| 6 | In 1976 I was ready to abandon the whole project , but a former student of , also a Swede , named , offered to take the project to Norway ( where he was then working ) , and complete the corpus there . |
| 7 | So they proceeded to take the game to Rangers with their elegant style . |
| 8 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 9 | It was the first time that an artist had taken the company to court . |
| 10 | I thought you had taken the cab to Reading . ’ |
| 11 | In between , and amid the unprecedented furore over the axing of Clive Rice and Jimmy Cook , Wessels had become South Africa 's new captain and had taken the squad to Australasia for the World Cup . |
| 12 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 13 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 14 | Mr Dane ( 50 ) from Mountsandel Road , Coleraine , had taken the board to court in March following his dismissal for allegedly failing in his duties to train junior doctors . |
| 15 | Oriel Stainton-Kelly revealed that her daughter Francesca had taken the pig to school . |
| 16 | Oriel Stainton-Kelly revealed that her daughter Francesca had taken the pig to school . |
| 17 | He was a businessman , an entrepreneur whose roller-coaster fortunes had taken the family to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica for about four years . |
| 18 | One more visit and the picture of the man who had taken the package to Moscow would be fuller and acceptable as a memorandum to the Deputy Under Secretary . |
| 19 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 20 | The coxswain considered taking the casualty to Newlyn at this point , which was to leeward , but decided to continue to Falmouth , as that was the port which the casualty was trying to reach and was also the lifeboat 's home port . |