Example sentences of "they take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 32 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 33 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 34 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 35 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 36 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 37 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 38 | Dried their own grain afore they took it to the mill . |
| 39 | They took it on the terrace where there was more air and a slight breeze ruffled Jane Postlethwaite 's sleeves . |
| 40 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 41 | began the camp , there all around this er village and they took it into the er |
| 42 | Striking northwards up the coast from near Khafji , accompanied also by some Qatari armour , they took it over the period 26–27 February . |
| 43 | They take him to the hospital . |
| 44 | Yes but they take it from the book . |
| 45 | They take us across the frontiers between the material and the mystical . |
| 46 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |
| 47 | Er they take you into the office , tell you to sit down , and they look at you as if you 're a little schoolboy . |
| 48 | They take you to the theatre if you like to pay , but nearly all the things we 've already seen . |
| 49 | They bound and gagged two children and then forced one of them to take them to the money . |
| 50 | Helen poured coffee but left them to take it from the tray . |
| 51 | You 've got to go and ask for them to take you on the erm |