Example sentences of "[conj] take [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 2 | At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy . |
| 3 | Instead … each student has become the owner of a collection of statements made by somebody else ( who had either created them or taken them over from another source ) . |
| 4 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 5 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 6 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 7 | And it was suggested by the er two officers that were present , that that could , that money that 's already there , could in fact get a third of the scheme done , the third which was the bisecting little path , the main trees across the front , and the bit of the paving that takes you over to the North Road . |
| 8 | If you have a healthy respect for your opponent , you will thrust forwards on a diagonal line that takes you out of his centre-line , before twisting to face him square-on . |
| 9 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 10 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 11 | England got the all-important shot that took them through to the final which they lost 19-8 to Ireland . |
| 12 | Things that took her back to when she was young . |
| 13 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 14 | But now , this dinghy club that my mate 's and he , he 's got tractors at Cromer that take them out of water so |
| 15 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 16 | To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’ |
| 17 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 18 | Joanna Quinn 's animation ‘ Girl 's night Out ’ ( 1987 ) leaves hubby behind , and takes us out to ‘ a quiet night with the girls ’ . |
| 19 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 20 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 21 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 22 | All smelly , and then he gets downs on you , and takes it out on you . |
| 23 | And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine |
| 24 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 25 | Do n't over-react and take it out on your son or daughter before you know all the facts — or you could make a small problem bigger |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 28 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 29 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 30 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |