Example sentences of "[subord] take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 3 | At the weekends when my Ma and Dad wanted a bit of peace , it was usually easier to send me to bide with Uncle Bill than to take me in the bus to my Uncle Geordie at Dalkeith . |
| 4 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 5 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 6 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |