Example sentences of "[was/were] take [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't say I was taking you to a hotel , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 8 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |