Example sentences of "[vb past] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 2 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 3 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 4 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 5 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 6 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
| 7 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 8 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |
| 9 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |
| 10 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 11 | And he went to take her by the arm , for he feared that she might fall — only for an even worse horror to grip Sally-Anne , so that she pushed him violently away , quite unable to control herself , stammering , ‘ No — no … ’ |
| 12 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 13 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 14 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 15 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 16 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 17 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 18 | Anyway , Mrs Aggie had been very sorry she had struck her and she had taken her into the town and bought her a real new bonnet , although she would allow her to wear it only on a Sunday . |
| 19 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 20 | Soon after he met Marigold he had taken her to the opera to see Die Walküre and afterwards had said without forethought : |
| 21 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |
| 22 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 23 | Fernando had taken her to the Zarzuela , the Spanish operettas that had taken her breath away . |
| 24 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 25 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 26 | He had taken her off the streets and given her a home because he was besotted with her ; the home that Sarah 's mother had kept clean and cheerful even when her health was failing . |
| 27 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 28 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 29 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 30 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |