Example sentences of "[adv] take [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But p up to ten miles , that takes you outside the limit and if if you have a new settlement for up to fourteen hundred clients , that patiently takes you outside the Greater York Area as defined by your study . |
| 2 | Even if your interest only takes you on regular tours of the local antique or junk shops , it will give you some stimulation . |
| 3 | All you have to do is to be willing to co-operate with the hypnotherapist as he gently takes you through the relaxation exercise to the hypnotic state . |
| 4 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 5 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 6 | If I go I will only take you with me and this bed is already warm . |
| 7 | Because we we can only take it on their word when they say we shall insure . |
| 8 | Well , I was thinking we could perhaps take her to Blagden Hall now that 's open . |
| 9 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 10 | We had better take her to the mortuary , before the daily hordes come pouring in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 14 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 15 | you perhaps took it in there then , for |
| 16 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 17 | as if to help Charity answer Mandy 's question , the binoculars suddenly took it upon themselves to come distinctly into focus . |
| 18 | But taking our morality from the Bible does not necessarily mean merely taking it on trust and authority , and abandoning all thought of moral knowledge . |
| 19 | The restorers ' single most valuable resource came in the form of life-size archive photographs of all the Gibbons ' carving at Hampton Court , and David Esterly is the first to admit his debt to the unnamed civil servant who in 1939 seeing war clouds gather , prudently took it upon himself to record the work for future generations . |
| 20 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 21 | Sometimes her beauty so took him by surprise , that he lost the thread of speech . |
| 22 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 23 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 24 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 25 | And as she looked into his eyes , again she remembered the revelation that had so taken her by surprise . |
| 26 | If people sing really badly the British merely take them to their hearts . |
| 27 | The Hispaniola was moving by herself now , the sea high enough to take her off the beach . |
| 28 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 29 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 30 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |