Example sentences of "would take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friend says : ‘ Well , if I were you I 'd take them straight to the zoo . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |