Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 2 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 3 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 4 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 5 | The Bill gives protection with one hand and takes it away with the other . |
| 6 | N — New Option This avoids the use of further index pages and takes you directly to the Option prompt , so that you can enter the number of the option you require . |
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| 8 | In a dream , she saw him reach out and take her possessively by the elbow . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 10 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It even seems to be capable of converting the fonts across by rasterising them and taking them across as a bitmap that the film recorder will image as a graphic . |
| 13 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 14 | He settled Francis Morgan down as best he could and took him again through the events of the week before his daughter vanished . |
| 15 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 16 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |
| 17 | Before Corbett could open his mouth , Prince Edward came forward and took him firmly by the hand . |
| 18 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 19 | He arranged for Marcus to see a dentist , and took him there in a taxi . |
| 20 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 22 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 23 | The fellow treated Corbett as if he were a Prince of the Blood and took him swiftly into the hall , which an army of servants were now cleaning after the previous night 's banquet . |
| 24 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 25 | Juliet made a hot drink for them both , and took them through to the sitting-room . |
| 26 | Leicester 3 , Barnsley 1 A SECOND successive Gary Mills penalty helped Leicester City to victory and took them well into the promotion play-off frame after an awkward encounter at Filbert Street , writes Henry Morton . |
| 27 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 28 | Halfway through his talk , the meeting was suddenly interrupted by a cadre of men dressed as prison guards ; these rather realistic toughs burst into the room , grabbed everybody there , and took them out to a set of waiting helicopters , which flew the bewildered executives off to a second meeting site . |
| 29 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |
| 30 | JoJo stood up and took them out to the kitchen . |