Example sentences of "take [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short bus or taxi ride from the city centre takes you to the Botanical Gardens which , until 1936 , were the Quinta do Bom Successo residence of the Reid family . |
| 2 | This splendid Sovereign tour takes you to the historic areas of Upper Egypt and the treasures of the Nile Valley . |
| 3 | One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road . |
| 4 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 5 | To use the landscape itself as the stage or background for artistic expression takes us to the very boundaries of art until , as we step across , we realize that the whole of life is , or could be , Art . |
| 6 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 7 | Some of these were to be offered as votives in the temple 's sanctuaries : others entered a trading network which might take them to the farthest ends of the island or overseas . |
| 8 | Your day-by-day programme will take you through the necessary steps but , first , here are some important tips on the subject of food . |
| 9 | These pictures may take you into the far reaches of analogy , metaphor , anecdotes , jokes , personal experiences and even sheer fantasy . |
| 10 | Another place within easy reach is Culloden Moor ; the railway will take you within a few miles . |
| 11 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I 'll take her for a few minutes . |
| 12 | is er , Robert you can come up and take us through the four steps of selling . |
| 13 | This process can take anything from a few weeks to a few months . |
| 14 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 15 | ‘ He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him . |
| 16 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 17 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 18 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 19 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 20 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |
| 21 | Then he received an offer to appear in Return from the River Kwai , which took him to the steaming jungles of the Philippines . |
| 22 | His way took him past the local police station . |
| 23 | He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel . |
| 24 | Similarly , er we have actually er taken something of the same attitudes towards windfall sites within the urban areas . |
| 25 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 26 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 27 | It 's part of the the I I P I actually picked up , rather irritatingly retrospectively , erm some things from the tech , erm that actually take me through the various stages of I I P . |
| 28 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 29 | take them into the surgical wards , the medical patients |
| 30 | yeah , to see if that car 's been sold , stolen or whatever and yet a solicitor come he said your solicitor will be able to pick up the phone , take you through the right channels , see if he 's sold that car , he has n't sold the car , who 's he sold it |