Example sentences of "[was/were] take [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
2 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
3 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
4 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
5 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
6 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
7 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
8 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
9 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
10 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
11 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
12 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
13 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |