Example sentences of "[noun sg] and take [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 3 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 4 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cornelius came around the car and took it from him . |
| 7 | She made a chicken salad and poured herself a glass of chilled white wine , then put them on a tray and took them into her sitting room . |
| 8 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 9 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 10 | In the transplant operation , doctors in London will extract some of her bone marrow and take it to the Netherlands . |
| 11 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 12 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 13 | A group of Turkish workers in South London buy lamb and bread and take it on a coach to the striking miners in Wales ( 1984 ) . |
| 14 | It is alleged Casabona , 20 , ambushed the youngster and took her by car to an isolated spot near Woodbridge . |
| 15 | Gyorgy Aczel , the liberal-minded ideology chief , spotted the talented regional boss and took him under his wings . |
| 16 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 17 | Maggie put Patrick in his cradle and took her in her arms with motherly concern . |
| 18 | Anwar would attend to the kids ' cultural upbringing and take them to school and mosque while Changez was , presumably , redecorating the shop , moving boxes and impregnating my girlfriend Jamila again . |
| 19 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
| 20 | I took the collar off , removed the stones , put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet . |
| 21 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 22 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 23 | Prune out the stem and take it into the shed where you can sit down comfortably to prepare the cuttings — they will have to be made very carefully , and you will need a very sharp knife . |
| 24 | The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation . |
| 25 | Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development . |
| 26 | When the Wilde scandal broke in 1895 , Mrs Leverson stood out against public opinion and took him into her home on his being released on bail , an act of courage and loyalty for which she has become justly renowned . |
| 27 | He would only assume that she attached some importance to his opinion and take it as a compliment . |
| 28 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 29 | Harbury snatched up a glass of wine and took it to her . |
| 30 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |