Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 2 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 3 | One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two . |
| 13 | In Holloway they do n't take you out to the ante-natal clinic or get you a scan or nothing ; Styal they do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He drove a wide circle out of the car park towards the slip-road that would take him back to the dual carriageway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They can take it through to the ancestral ballroom . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I must take it across to the eight twelves . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |
| 21 | A ‘ cross theology ’ , not on its own , let me add , but central to our preaching , will take us back to the central verity of our faith . |
| 22 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 23 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 24 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 25 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 26 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 27 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 28 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 29 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 30 | Given the dating technique of the time Halling Man was thought to have been Aurignacian , taking him back to the closing phase of the Ice Age . |