Example sentences of "take [pron] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road up the west coast from Lagos to Lisbon , 150 miles away , takes you through a typically Portuguese mix of urban sprawl ( around the multi-fly-overed town of Sines , ) lovely countryside ( cork forests bordering a 30-stretch of beach between Sines and Tróia ) , and enchanting old towns ( such as Santiago do Cacém ) . |
| 2 | This takes you to a very similar dialog box to the one for a new presentation except that it lacks the button for selecting a presentation style . |
| 3 | A carefully described church tour takes you around the most spectacular church architecture . |
| 4 | The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation . |
| 5 | The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England . |
| 6 | I could take you to a really good tea-room , just up the road … |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't worry , misses , ’ the driver said staring at her in open curiosity , ‘ I 'll take you to a very respectable lodging house run by a real lady . |
| 8 | If you have the right skills , the knowledge , the personal qualities and the management potential it could take you from a purely scientific discipline into the most senior scientific managerial ranks within the Civil Service . |
| 9 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 10 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 11 | She took them into the almost deserted coffee lounge . |
| 12 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 13 | Constance was worried about her clothes , but Louise took her on a very practical shopping spree and they bought two simple skirts and three blouses . |
| 14 | He took her to a rather smart Italian restaurant full of intimate little tables far too close together for private conversation . |
| 15 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 16 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 17 | jack Carey , who was an explorer as well as a student of Oriental languages , had promised to take them to the most remote corners of the earth some day , and they had often pictured themselves camping in the silent desert , or following some ancient track to a ruined city which had once been great . |
| 18 | The better quality of Danby and the other famous names of the Bristol School take them into an even higher price range . |
| 19 | I expect I did , but I never know , I 'm so afraid of losing things that sometimes I take them into the most unsuitable places . |