Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My route takes me up into the Chiltern foothills , and a labyrinth of green lanes . |
| 2 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 3 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 4 | One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands . |
| 5 | He takes something out of the black box . |
| 6 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 7 | Absolute exemption from restriction or regulation is never obtained : circumstances , social or economic , may have altered , since they obtained acceptance , in such a way as to call for a fresh examination ; there may be some exorbitance or special feature in the individual contract which takes it out of the accepted category : but the court however must be persuaded of this before it calls upon the relevant party to justify a contract of this kind . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 10 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 11 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 12 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 13 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 14 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 15 | One , two , three , four five six , seven , eight no one , two three , four there 's nine so we 'll probably have to take some stools in , but I wo n't take them in till the last minute . |
| 16 | I 'm not telling you where I am ; you 'll only tell Angus and he 'll tell the police and they 'll take me back to the fucking hospital . ’ |
| 17 | When you pick up the rec , the , the hands it will actually take you through to the nearest police control room area now , if it 's on the M eleven then most of the calls will go into Chelmsford , our police headquarters , once you cross over the borders and go into Metropolitan area , then that goes up to the Scotland Yard in their control rooms . |
| 18 | Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two . |
| 19 | Er , you will be listened to , er , and that will create , and you will have influence , and that cycle will take you back into the positive memories for the next time you try and change something . |
| 20 | In Holloway they do n't take you out to the ante-natal clinic or get you a scan or nothing ; Styal they do . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He drove a wide circle out of the car park towards the slip-road that would take him back to the dual carriageway . |
| 23 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 24 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |
| 25 | They can take it through to the ancestral ballroom . ’ |
| 26 | Sonia : So why take it out on the black people then , she 's told black people to do many things , she 's even called them monkey . |
| 27 | But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here . |
| 28 | Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France . |
| 29 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 30 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |