Example sentences of "[was/were] take [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 2 | At one point Eva turned and gesticulated towards me , as if she were taking him to task for something he 'd done to me . |
| 3 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 6 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 8 | He was taking her to St Bartholomew 's , the hospital where he was a junior physician . |
| 9 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 10 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 11 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 12 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 13 | John was taking her for granted , so were the children . |
| 14 | ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma . |
| 15 | She sought oblivion , and one tablet a night quickly escalated to two , then three , then a couple in the morning , then four , until eventually she was taking them like sweeties . |
| 16 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 17 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 18 | He said he was taking him to obedience classes but he was n't . |
| 19 | I 'm glad I ai n't at Combe Court now — that 's where he was taking me to . |
| 20 | And now the train was taking me to Aunt Louise through the quiet countryside , and in spite of my preoccupation I could not help enjoying the journey . |
| 21 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 22 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |
| 23 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 24 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 26 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 27 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't say I was taking you to a hotel , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 29 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 30 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |