Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 2 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 4 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 5 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 6 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |
| 7 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 9 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 10 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 11 | Juliet made a hot drink for them both , and took them through to the sitting-room . |
| 12 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 13 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |
| 14 | JoJo stood up and took them out to the kitchen . |
| 15 | Needing an outlet for her gathering frustration , she collected the bulbs she had bought in Norwich earlier in the week and took them out into the little garden . |
| 16 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 17 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 18 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 19 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 20 | Her mummy , drawn by the noise , ran out of the tent , and seeing what had happened put her arms round her to comfort her and took her back into the tent . |
| 21 | As soon as I saw this , I dialled 999 and took her out to the studio in the stables where I live . |
| 22 | Finally a soldier arrived and took me back to the Star Room . |
| 23 | When he returned to the cottage he extinguished all but one of the candles and took it through to the bedroom . |
| 24 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |
| 25 | Later , in 1965 , Elvis Presley remembered the ditty and took it back up the charts . |
| 26 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 27 | Then he filled his cheap vacuum flask and took it back to the car where it completed a meal of dry crusty bread and cheese . |
| 28 | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla . |
| 29 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |
| 30 | He gathered up the blossom and took it back into the house . |