Example sentences of "[vb infin] taken [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
| 2 | Chances were he would have taken her at her word . |
| 3 | His expression changed , and he would have taken her in his arms if she had n't moved quickly . |
| 4 | ‘ You should n't have taken her like that . ’ |
| 5 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 6 | They had both of them thought that the climate of Panama would be bad for the racquets , although it turned out in the end that he could perfectly well have taken them with him . |
| 7 | A quick search failed to reveal any suspiciously empty bottles of barbiturates , but of course she might have taken them with her . |
| 8 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 9 | A stranger would have taken them for brothers . |
| 10 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 11 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 12 | Cos he 'd have taken them to court and said well he did n't even pay it , I did ! |
| 13 | Strictly they were attached to the governor 's staff as equerries or grooms , but as with singulares their duties may have taken them outside his immediate entourage . |
| 14 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 15 | The person taking the goods must have taken them in good faith without notice of the agent 's lack of authority . |
| 16 | A number are not known to be from previous material , and Wulfstan may have taken them from records of Cnut 's administration . |
| 17 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 18 | Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he was n't being moved sideways or demoted . |
| 19 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 20 | This would have taken him into working-class black dance-halls , bars , churches : more generally , by extension , into the whole network of subterranean currents beneath the bland surface of the metropolitan American musical mainstream . |
| 21 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 22 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 23 | I could have taken him to task about how he was defining ‘ agree ’ and ‘ honest ’ , but just somehow did n't . |
| 24 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |
| 25 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 26 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 27 | As he was mental , I mean would you have taken him to a hospital or the station ? |
| 28 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 29 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 30 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |