Example sentences of "[vb mod] take [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If the knots wo n't come out with that then she must take him to a professional grooming salon where the knots will be removed safely and painlessly . |
2 | And , peeled off a layer at a time , it 'll take you through a wide spectrum of weather conditions and levels of exertion . |
3 | If I can get across this road and the bridge I 'll take you over the other side and you might be able see the big tree trunk better . |
4 | Either come aboard ship with us when we have the treasure , and we 'll take you to a safe place ; or stay here on the island . ’ |
5 | We 'll take you to the lively and colourful resort of Waikiki and the Outrigger Village Hotel , just five minutes ' stroll from miles of golden sand . |
6 | But we undid the fire door , which was fortunate we were by it and I said look I 'll take you outside the fresh air might revive you . |
7 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
8 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
9 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
10 | These pictures may take you into the far reaches of analogy , metaphor , anecdotes , jokes , personal experiences and even sheer fantasy . |
11 | She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened . |
12 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
13 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
14 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
15 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
16 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
17 | Some would take them to the top half of the dale , and the others the bottom half . |
18 | It seemed as if Lydia would take them like a new baby and display them triumphantly to the assembled company . |
19 | Walking up three steps , she was soon in the foyer of the block of apartments she 'd set out to find , and pressing the button in the lift which would take her to the top floor . |
20 | This was a Monday night and the early show of a week 's run in a tour which would take her round the Eastern States , and hopefully into New York for the spring of 1913 , that is if audiences took to her in this first week . |
21 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
22 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
23 | Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that , if parliament did not approve his version , he would take it to a national referendum . |
24 | Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that , if parliament did not approve his version , he would take it to a national referendum . |
25 | He said if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights . |
26 | He said that if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed , he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
27 | He would take it as a personal affront . |
28 | ‘ I can show you an excellent view of the town , ’ he pressed , his smile dipping for all the world as if he would take it as a personal tragedy if she refused . |
29 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
30 | ‘ In addition to doublle-digit growth for use in bottling , I can see a market for 50-70kta of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe in these new applications by 1990 , ’ says Bruce , ‘ And as a successful outcome of the research we are doing to produce materials of high-temperature resistance [ which would take us into the hot-fill container market ] and materials of improved gas barrier properties could add considerably to that . ’ |