Example sentences of "they take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 2 | Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation … |
| 3 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 4 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 5 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |
| 6 | They take them away at night in Telford , so you only see them |