Example sentences of "taking [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PICASSO keeps taking me to the Rotonde , ’ the rising young poet Jean Cocteau wrote to a friend in 1916 . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's taking me to the Tower of London . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 4 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 5 | Over a year on from the hurricane blast of ‘ Purity ’ they still petrify , the blustery emotional gales of their live outings still taking me to the brink of a seizure . |
| 6 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 7 | Everyone is being extra nice to me and , best of all , Pa is taking me to the yard tomorrow . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 9 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |
| 10 | He 's the young man who 's taking me to the concert and I have n't known him long enough to be late . |
| 11 | Are you taking me to the er |
| 12 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 13 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 14 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 15 | Taking them to the surgery for routine checks ensures that they should not associate this with unpleasant stimuli . |
| 16 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 17 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 18 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 19 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 20 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 21 | Macaques were picking up potatoes , taking them to the sea , and washing the sand off the potatoes ; they used one hand to dip the potato into the sea , and the other to brush the sand off . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't say anything to Philippe because it was so inconclusive , ’ she finished , ‘ and I still ca n't decide whether it 's worth taking them to the police . ’ |
| 23 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't forget , I 'm taking you to the Stadt Berlin . |
| 25 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 26 | ‘ Taking you to the gig , ’ she said , in a preoccupied tone . |
| 27 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
| 29 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 30 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |