Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 2 | After lunch two mini-buses took us to the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra and the Dublin deaf were overcome by the beauty of our countryside . |
| 3 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 4 | ‘ This is madness , ’ he groaned and brought his head down , his lips taking hers in a kiss that brooked no opposition . |
| 5 | The courses consist of specially written course books taking you through a programme of work , mostly practical activity . |
| 6 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 7 | Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat . |
| 8 | A NEW CULTURE FOR PEARL Pearl Assurance is one of the companies that are implementing IT solutions to take them beyond the year 2000 |
| 9 | Murren has a huge variety of signposted walks to take you over the hills and into the mountains . |
| 10 | When the screen is completed , a local builder and about half-a-dozen husbands take it to the peace well at the corner of the village green on the Saturday morning . |
| 11 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 12 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 13 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 14 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |
| 15 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 16 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 17 | The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted . |
| 18 | If , however , you do n't , ask your parents to take you to a grief counsellor . |
| 19 | twinges take it off the hinges we was getting nowhere What shall we |
| 20 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
| 21 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 22 | Amyas took her by the arm and helped her to her feet . |
| 23 | This was protected on the landward side by the Portsea Lines but the garrison would be harassed by small boats taking them in the rear via the channel between Portsea and Hayling Island . |
| 24 | Will the local bookshops take them on a sale-or-return basis ? |
| 25 | A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion . |
| 26 | Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired . |
| 27 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 28 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 29 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 30 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |