Example sentences of "[conj] take [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you are still not satisfied after that you can threaten to issue a court summons or to take it to the ombudsman . ’ |
| 4 | 1.7 , a point of some significance in the context of this essay , and one to which I shall return later ) , or take them to the Temple for the ritual redemption of the first-born ( idem ) ; they were exempt from making the thrice-yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the feasts of Passover , Pentecost and Tabernacles ( Hag . |
| 5 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 6 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 7 | If you have no secretary to fend off telephone calls turn the telephone off or take it off the hook while you are conducting the interview . |
| 8 | I think you can ask the council to take it away or something or take it to the dump |
| 9 | Bill Mumford says you need climbing skills and it 's a challenge that takes them into a new realm … he says they are praying for dry weather … but it gets very cold … drops to minus twenty at night |
| 10 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |
| 11 | Within that pack there is erm er if you like the book that takes you through the slides that have been put up there today . |
| 12 | • If you make a move that takes you beyond the last circle on the grid , you must count back to complete that move before continuing forward with the next move . |
| 13 | There are a number of rate bands and the relevant rate of interest is paid on all your savings — not just the amount that takes you into a higher band . |
| 14 | Balances over £50,000 receive the top HICA rate , which is credited quarterly in March , June , September and December , is paid on your total savings and not just the amount that takes you into a higher band . |
| 15 | In doing a campaign that takes you around the country on tour you may visit the local newspaper , talk to a consumer group , make a speech over a special lunch for local important big-wigs and then do an interview on the local radio . |
| 16 | A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years . |
| 17 | Because we , we have a large amount of cash which it suits us to get rid of rather than take it to the bank er to be added up and charged for cash handling . |
| 18 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 19 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 20 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 21 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 22 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 23 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 24 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 25 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 26 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 27 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 28 | With interest , that took her beyond the £55,000 offer which the police force had made in June 1991 to settle the case . |
| 29 | She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees . |
| 30 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |