Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fabia was still wondering if she needed to add anything to that when , as a complete switch , and taking her totally off guard , Ven threw the abrupt question , ‘ Are you married ? ’ |
| 2 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 3 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 4 | They immobilised the 26 babies of the herd and took them away by helicopter , and the government ‘ very reluctantly ’ shot the rest of the elephants . |
| 5 | Er he used to do , we used to have a round each morning and collect all the films from the chemists and then we developed and printed them and took them back at night . |
| 6 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 7 | Any one of thirty officials inside the building might have noticed his trembling body , or the tiny beads of sweat pricking his brow , and taken him aside for interrogation . |
| 8 | Her daughters suffered , she says , ‘ because I went through periods of such intense misery , that friends would collect them from school and take them home for tea . ’ |
| 9 | These six lives are all of my spending , and if I were free I would go with any army and take them back with usury . |
| 10 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 11 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
| 12 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Meanwhile , why do n't I pick you up and take you out to dinner one evening ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'll come down to Richmond and take you out for dinner , how does that sound ? |
| 15 | ‘ Now go into the kitchen and take the tray which you 'll find waiting on the table on the left and take it up to room five on the third floor . ’ |