Example sentences of "[verb] taken [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The city council , responsible for housing people with Aids , has taken her off the streets and put her in a room in a single-occupancy hotel . |
2 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
3 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
4 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
5 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
6 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
7 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
8 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
9 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
10 | IT is probably unwise to record in print that a man who is not your lawfully wedded husband has taken you to the heights of unbridled rapture . |
11 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
12 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
13 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
14 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
15 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
16 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
20 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
21 | Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he was n't being moved sideways or demoted . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
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 | 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 . |
28 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
29 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
30 | Graham Taylor , having taken us to the brink of a shock World Cup exit after miserable displays against Poland and Norway , contemplates on the latest national disaster . |