Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 2 | I 'll take you straight home to rest and I 'll organize Gaston and Julius to come just before five , and I 'll tell Karl he is to report promptly . |
| 3 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 4 | I 'm taking you somewhere else to deal with you . ’ |
| 5 | It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected . |
| 6 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 7 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 8 | This frankness was so unprecedented that the girls could not resent it ; they could not , in the context of school behaviour , take it seriously enough to resent it . |