Example sentences of "take they [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them to the limits of physical endurance , then asks for more . |
| 2 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got some papers but I ca n't take them to the police , can I ? |
| 4 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 5 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't say anything to Philippe because it was so inconclusive , ’ she finished , ‘ and I still ca n't decide whether it 's worth taking them to the police . ’ |
| 7 | Lindsey watched in fascination as the taxi laboriously made its way along the rising curve of the road taking them into the hills . |
| 8 | Then in the early morning , just before dawn , they took them into the woods and shot them . |
| 9 | In the morning , just before it was light , they took them into the woods and shot them . |
| 10 | He says charity shops should be allowed to sell second hand toys as they 've always done and the legislation which took them off the shelves was wrongly framed and should be scrapped . |
| 11 | Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept . |
| 12 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 13 | After a shaky start , we took them to the cleaners . |
| 14 | Two seasons ago , they beat Sparta Prague 2-0 in Czechoslovakia , then drew 0-0 in Napoli on a European Cup run which took them to the semi-finals . |
| 15 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 16 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 17 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 18 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 19 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 20 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 21 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 22 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 23 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 24 | CHAIR HIRE The scheme involves disabled drivers leaving their cars at a site near the town centre and then hiring an electric wheelchair to take them around the shops . |
| 25 | Richard Lee says they often take them to the woods because they are working without knowing it . |
| 26 | ‘ The idea is , if you get them all swimming — without Mr Foggerty and me , that is … if you take the job on , and take them to the baths several times a week — if you teach them to swim , we 'll give you a motor-bike . ’ |
| 27 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |