Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanna Quinn 's animation ‘ Girl 's night Out ’ ( 1987 ) leaves hubby behind , and takes us out to ‘ a quiet night with the girls ’ . |
| 2 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 3 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 4 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 5 | All smelly , and then he gets downs on you , and takes it out on you . |
| 6 | And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine |
| 7 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 8 | Do n't over-react and take it out on your son or daughter before you know all the facts — or you could make a small problem bigger |
| 9 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 10 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 11 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 12 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 13 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 14 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 15 | ‘ I was aiming for a Mediterranean feel , ’ she explained , filling a plastic mug with orange juice and taking it over to Thomas . |
| 16 | I was upset and taking it out on you . |
| 17 | Easing forward on the yoke , Vologsky tested the change of control , putting the Foxbat into a gentle dive and taking it down to just over 45,000 feet . |
| 18 | He hopped close to my feet and waited till I presented him with a bun all to himself , and he had hard work nibbling it and taking it along with him to his home . |
| 19 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 20 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 21 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |
| 22 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 23 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 24 | The trawler took him in tow and took him back to Falmouth , Cornwall , where he was arrested by police , Truro Crown Court was told . |
| 25 | I went to see him , and took him back to Edinburgh . |
| 26 | I am the girl that kidnapped little Oliver and took him back to old Fagin 's house on the night Oliver was going to the bookseller . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Davies put his friend in his car and took him back to his flat in Highfield Road and called for an ambulance . |
| 28 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 30 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |