Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv prt] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 2 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 3 | Two — ’ a finger joined the thumb ‘ — I know another way through the keep that will take us out to a side-gate which , if we 're lucky , wo n't be guarded … |
| 4 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 5 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 6 | They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind . |
| 7 | She caught up with me and took me along to a paddock to see her horse . |
| 8 | Harvey took me out to a sauna club he belonged to . |
| 9 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 10 | Halfway through his talk , the meeting was suddenly interrupted by a cadre of men dressed as prison guards ; these rather realistic toughs burst into the room , grabbed everybody there , and took them out to a set of waiting helicopters , which flew the bewildered executives off to a second meeting site . |
| 11 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 12 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 13 | He took her out to a restaurant one evening , a farewell dinner , he said , as she was going to go back and live with her mother , and he gave her a lot to eat and drink and later that night came into her room and raped her . |
| 14 | We took it round to a friend 's , did n't we ? |
| 15 | Even sad films took us back to a world that we understood , a world where people lived their lives , hoping for happiness and sometimes even finding it . |
| 16 | Hywel , supposed Lydia , must have briefly courted her , have put on a suit , taken her out to a café , been moderately gay . |
| 17 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 18 | Take me out to a patch of waste ground and kick my head in for spreading dissent ? |
| 19 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 20 | Take it along to a trick cyclist if it bothers you . ’ |
| 21 | I mean if you had to take it along to a shop and |