Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] [adv prt] to 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Juliet made a hot drink for them both , and took them through to the sitting-room . |
| 9 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |
| 10 | JoJo stood up and took them out to the kitchen . |
| 11 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 12 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 13 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 14 | As soon as I saw this , I dialled 999 and took her out to the studio in the stables where I live . |
| 15 | Finally a soldier arrived and took me back to the Star Room . |
| 16 | When he returned to the cottage he extinguished all but one of the candles and took it through to the bedroom . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla . |
| 20 | Anyway , we desecrated the British flag — sewed on a pink triangle and painted on slogans — and took it along to the demo , which was very well attended . |
| 21 | There she chose a textbook on medical diseases and took it along to the lounge in the nurses ' residence . |
| 22 | The next day , Bobbie put Peter 's engine in a box and took it down to the railway . |
| 23 | Maxie made himself some coffee and took it out to the patio , where he surveyed the work to be done . |
| 24 | I lifted the small body , almost feather light , wrapped it in the sheet which had been spread on the rug and took it out to the car . |
| 25 | There the story remained until December 1988 when six members of the Fenland Aircraft Preservation Society ( FAPS ) organised a field reconnaissance and met with a local farmer who remembered the crash and took us along to the field . |
| 26 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
| 27 | She felt them lift her and take her over to the low stone wall beside the glimmering field of water-chestnuts . |
| 28 | In fact , Hyacinth was thinking about Wullie Robertson who , to her great surprise , had said he would pick her up from the Hospitality Inn after dinner , and take her on to the Young Conservatives Ball . |
| 29 | A French galley will pick her up off the coast of the Forth and take her out to the sea where other ships are waiting to escort her back to France . |
| 30 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |