Example sentences of "had [vb pp] take [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that . |
| 3 | Miss Poraway had at once become tearful and Lavinia had had to take her to the kitchen . |
| 4 | A gentleman caller had arrived to take her to the ball . |
| 5 | The car which we had ordered to take us to the station never appeared , and we travelled instead in a dilapidated tonga . |