Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 2 | The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone but with a very efficient tram service to take you across the town . |
| 3 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 4 | I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean . |
| 5 | She used Rosalind 's flashlight to take her across the kitchen 's frayed linoleum to the corridor . |
| 6 | At 11 p.m. , he made sure there was still plenty of tape left on the machine and departed , returning at 8 a.m. the following morning to take it across the street to Syrian George . |
| 7 | ‘ Till we came to the sea , and then there 'd be lighted ships ready to take us across the world . ’ |
| 8 | You often hire him to take us across the river . |