Example sentences of "taking them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see if the girls were sent to taking them to other work . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps he 's taking them to another field where there is more grass , ’ said the aunt . |
| 3 | That afternoon the demands of civilisation descended on them briefly , taking them to another house , to play with strange children . |
| 4 | David was a hale and hearty kind of cleric , and for a while she cherished hopes of missionary work taking them into some exotic foreign clime . |
| 5 | But taking them at all is a special achievement . |
| 6 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 8 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 9 | Er people are very very good actually at enduring them and er and taking them in some ways for granted . |
| 10 | They are taking them from one list and putting them on another . ’ |