Example sentences of "[conj] take they to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 7 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 8 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 9 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
| 10 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 11 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 12 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 13 | The inspector removed the cats and took them to the RSPCA home in Martlesham . |
| 14 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 15 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 16 | He searched through the desk for various necessary documents that the bureaucratic world would demand to see now that he was returning to it , and took them to the suitcase in the bedroom , together with his agent 's letter . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll tape them , ’ Elinor said , ‘ and take them to the church hall . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The idea is , if you get them all swimming — without Mr Foggerty and me , that is … if you take the job on , and take them to the baths several times a week — if you teach them to swim , we 'll give you a motor-bike . ’ |
| 19 | So if you have young children you might be able to make some garments and take them to the Play Group — if the leader will let you ! |
| 20 | She would put all the light clothes into one bag and all the dark into another and take them to the launderette in Pevsner Road . |
| 21 | ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them . |
| 22 | I used to wash at night , and get them all dry , get up in the night , iron them , and take them to the pawn shop . |
| 23 | Adam wants me to collect some things that he forgot , and take them to the hospital . ’ |
| 24 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 25 | Langbaurgh Council 's refuse collection service will pick up sacks full of plastic carriers and take them to the British Visqueen factory in Stockton for recycling . |
| 26 | And he 'd clip them on the clip them on the rope and take 'em to the pit bottom . |
| 27 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |