Example sentences of "would take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 2 | The friend says : ‘ Well , if I were you I 'd take them straight to the zoo . ’ |
| 3 | There might be a yachtsman come along and he 'd want a mooring , so he 'd say to my father , can you fix us up yes , get an old bit of chain and put round , put some wooden wed wedges in tighten 'em up , up , that 's his , that 's his mooring , he 'd take it somewhere in the river , have it dumped , put a buoy on it , that was , that 's like his anchor . |
| 4 | In the evenings , when Kāli brought the cows home , we 'd take it down to the stable to its mother and she would stretch out her nose to it and blow , and the breath would come out as steam in the cold , evening air . |
| 5 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 6 | Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course . |
| 7 | He drove a wide circle out of the car park towards the slip-road that would take him back to the dual carriageway . |
| 8 | Even had he the strength , the swim would take him out from the protection of the cliff . |
| 9 | The match resumed and the two sides remained locked in fairly even combat until , in the last few minutes , a goal-mouth scramble enabled the home team to snatch the solitary goal and two points that would take them nowhere near the top of their league . |
| 10 | Since this line of flight would take them straight to the pioneer party of 200-300 already assembled on the traditional Witney site , I wondered whether this was their destination . |
| 11 | After that , the Cypriot police would take them out to the airport and put them on flights to Frankfurt , where the bag-switch routine used by ‘ legitimate ’ smugglers was employed to bypass the airport 's security arrangements and load the ‘ dirty suitcases on to trans-Atlantic flights . |
| 12 | And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk . |
| 13 | The Scots , their mission completed , packed coffers and chests and prepared to leave , intending to go under safe conduct to Yarmouth where their ships would take them back to the Port of Leith in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Hurriedly , with her head down , she made her way to the nearest entrance that would take her back into the factory . |
| 15 | Her husband Sid would recognize the warning signs when she turned pale and became anxious , and he would take her out of the room before she passed out . |
| 16 | He stopped and said he would take me back to the Hall . |
| 17 | Moments later , as Lake Balkhash slipped away below him , Vologsky made a minor adjustment and set the Foxbat on a course which would take it directly over the home missile bases at Alma-Ata . |
| 18 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |
| 19 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 20 | How far these two constructions — the adjective with the verb and the adverb with the verb — should be considered in company with constructions such as : ( 15 ) Heidi saw the stork falter ( 16 ) kiss her goodbye ! is an interesting question , but one which would take us well beyond the bounds of the adjectival study on which we are focusing here . ) |
| 21 | Here it is evident that an interest in language usage motivated by functionalist approaches to linguistics would take us well beyond the confines of pragmatics ( as sketched in the definitions above ) into the domain of sociolinguistics and beyond . |
| 22 | Er we at the County Council think that to delete that Greater York erm dimension would take us back to the realms of uncertainty , past uncertainty , in the Greater York area , we 're therefore proceeding with a Greater York dimension in policy H One at none thousand seven hundred dwellings , which equates to hundred percent migration . |