Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 2 | I think competitions can be fun as long as you do n't take them at all seriously . |
| 3 | Golfers , with bags of clubs over shoulders , boarded tramcars which would take them to many of the numerous golf-clubs in and around the city . |
| 4 | It will take them on one journey in one week in one direction for a very short distance . |
| 5 | He wondered if they 'd ever find husbands or boyfriends who would take them on such a holiday as this and rather doubted it . |
| 6 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 7 | Besides , I do n't take them into deep water . |
| 8 | It gives readers that necessary tug which will take them through all sorts of possibly wearisome matters to the final page . |
| 9 | That 's seconded , nice to know we have a straight choice , as you favour , we 'll take them in reverse order . |
| 10 | I was going to say can we take them in small groups ? |
| 11 | It 's like all good things to come , I do n't like to count my chickens , so I 'd rather not , not the little memorandums say , oh you 've got another X million , if only we could take them in this year . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , this should take me about another fortnight . ’ |
| 13 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | She wore a stiff black silk dress , a lace cap and an expression of disapproval — " I hope they wo n't take me for one of your actress friends , " she boomed . |
| 16 | An expedition , I should say , which I will undertake alone , in the comfort of Mr Farraday 's Ford ; an expedition which , as I foresee it , will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country , and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days . |
| 17 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 18 | It was a journey that would also take me from one extreme of the Ford range , the £46,600 Jaguar V12 saloon , to the other — £6,855 of Fiesta 1.1L . |
| 19 | Let me take you to one twentieth-century Christian who seems to me to express this so vividly . |
| 20 | Occasionally , if you are lucky , your account executive may take you to one of those much-talked-about business lunches , or at least buy you a drink . |
| 21 | I 'll take you to one of our previews that we got . |
| 22 | I 'll take you to all the places I loved as a girl . |
| 23 | By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century . |
| 24 | The route will also take you to some of the finest areas of heathland in the country and will include a tea stop at Clumber Park Tea Rooms . |
| 25 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll take you to some place quieter … ’ |
| 27 | For tens of pennies it 'll take you to any one of 20 odd bays or villages in the area . |
| 28 | ‘ But it wo n't take you to any of the local castles . |
| 29 | Yet Switzerland is only 20 miles to the north and a three-hour car drive will take you to any one of five different countries . |
| 30 | The Malt Whisky Trail , a one day car tour , will take you to world-famous distilleries . |