Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That takes me up to Easter . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |
| 3 | Takes me back to Scampton . |
| 4 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 5 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 6 | Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ? |
| 7 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 8 | They have a streamlined routine — lunch at the Market Cafe on the same street as their house , a local barber and tailor — which never takes them far from home and avoids unprogrammed encounters . |
| 9 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 10 | This takes you up over Bwlch-y-Saethau , the Pass of the Arrows , where the battle with Mordred is actually supposed to have taken place . |
| 11 | Near the station of the cable railway which takes you up to Gabulowka for a lovely view across the town , there are Russians and other traders selling bric a brac in the open market . |
| 12 | If you are blind or physically disabled or your work regularly takes you away from home , you may qualify to vote by post or proxy for an indefinite period . |
| 13 | A ‘ train ride ’ takes you right into town where all the action is . |
| 14 | The ‘ Maid of the Mist ’ takes you closer to Niagara Falls |
| 15 | A short walk takes you down to Widemouth Beach one of Cornwall 's finest beaches with a vast expanse of sand , good bathing and wonderful surfing . |
| 16 | A small detour takes you down to Caniço de Baixa or Ponta da Oliveira where there is a small modern development ( mainly owned by Germans ) . |
| 17 | Dragging open a curtain to reveal an advancing line of emaciated near-cadavers in filth-caked concentration camp uniforms , he takes you back to Auschwitz . |
| 18 | ‘ What takes you back to Britain in the middle of a war ? ’ |
| 19 | The final phase of your initial training takes you back to HMS Raleigh where you will learn things that only the Navy can teach you , such as field cookery in areas of natural disaster and practical experience of bulk cookery in our large galleys . |
| 20 | The Zwolferhorn gondola takes you directly from St Gilgen up to the top of the Zwolferhorn mountain . |
| 21 | But that movement to the east also takes you out of Béarn and into Bigorre , so any further description of it had better wait . |
| 22 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 23 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 24 | His latest project takes him back to Hawaii , and Rick Batey finds out why … |
| 25 | If your saint is to remain here now , then even if Tutilo escapes the sheriff 's law , if Herluin takes him back to Ramsey they 'll make him pay through his skin for what he attempted and failed to bring to success . |
| 26 | Well absolutely I mean this is the way that things have always worked and the County Council makes a global assessment of requirements for a particular district and the district council then takes it forward with assumptions on small sites , windfall sites er and major allocations that they may be mad making . |
| 27 | It is also present in milk and eggs , and the body takes it in from exposure to sunshine as well , which is one reason why it is so important for the elderly to take outdoor exercise . |
| 28 | and then go sa sa straight on down that road as it takes us down onto Castle Lane to then turn off for Sarah 's . |
| 29 | A good example of how this perspective works takes us back to Pamela Fishman 's studies of ‘ interactional shitwork ’ . |
| 30 | But the plot takes us back to Paris and its police for the denouement of the story , and it is there that the real and menacing power is seen to reside . |