Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 And it was suggested by the er two officers that were present , that that could , that money that 's already there , could in fact get a third of the scheme done , the third which was the bisecting little path , the main trees across the front , and the bit of the paving that takes you over to the North Road .
2 It 's a fast ascent on to the bealach , and then a right turn takes you on to a surprising flat little plateau sporting a tiny circular lochan .
3 where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road .
4 The West Hill Railway takes you up to the Castle and Smugglers Adventure in St. Clement 's Caves from George Street .
5 I , I , I think he described them as light granite , but , but actually of a manmade material , which is being used at the moment in Nottingham on a something called a heritage walk which takes you up to the lace market in Nottingham .
6 Just turn right up there and it takes you up to the bottom of the M10 .
7 And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely .
8 Takes you down to the Littlewoods .
9 Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party .
10 Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state .
11 Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last .
12 One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands .
13 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
14 But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . "
15 the bit takes it up to the
16 This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day .
17 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 " .
18 That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday .
19 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 .
20 This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago .
21 If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations .
22 He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit .
23 As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament .
24 Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato .
25 The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses .
26 The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century .
27 No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown .
28 It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’
29 My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland .
30 And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity .
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