Example sentences of "took the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard Paul Crossland took the money to France days before his term as treasurer was due to end . |
| 2 | We were told that no further departures had occurred in Anglesey since the Secretary of State took the council to task . |
| 3 | Mr William Hague , Conservative MP for Richmond , took the campaign to Westminster when he secured a Commons debate on the matter . |
| 4 | It did n't matter if you saw God , quit your job , and took the journey to India . |
| 5 | Did you ever hear the way they took the whisky to Arbroath ? |
| 6 | Edith took the plates to Margot Iverson 's end of the table , where the vegetables were served , and then handed them in turn to the guests . |
| 7 | Diana took the criticism to heart , avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent . |
| 8 | Significantly , it was the schoolgirls , more so than the working males , who took the councillor to task . |
| 9 | peter Makin for instance , in general one of the very best such commentators , misleads when he glosses a passage from Canto 23 by remarking : ‘ Troy was the citadel of a culture , and when it fell … the priest-king Aeneas ( guided by the chthonic deities ) took the heritage to Italy , where his descendants planted Rome … |
| 10 | They took the painting to Sudbury to get an expert opinion and there the signature at the bottom of the canvas was pointed out to them , that of one C. Prebble . |
| 11 | He roused and saddled a snoring Philomel and took the road to London Bridge . |
| 12 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 13 | As he took the road to Bridgwater with John Chester , something essential to his happiness remained behind him , both in the rich and various landscape which so closely mirrored the landscape of his mind , and in the generous steadying friendship of Tom Poole . |
| 14 | He and his men took the road to Verdun . |
| 15 | Ruth left Palma and took the road to Valldemosa . |
| 16 | For certain it is that she did leave your enclave with my men , and with them took the road to Ramsey . |
| 17 | In October he took the manuscript to Wagner 's publisher , E. W. Fritzsch . |
| 18 | The Monopolies Commission took the board to task on three main issues : the use of ‘ target ’ rather than expected values in estimating parameters under the CEGB 's influence ( for example , construction cost and duration ) ; the use and presentation of sensitivity analysis around predicted outcomes ; and the lack of any firm basis for forecasting nuclear fuel-cycle costs . |
| 19 | Rescuers who took the girl to hospital said Lance 's quick thinking had saved her life . |
| 20 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 21 | R admitted that he took the equipment to parties and converted the cocaine into a form in which it would vaporise and be inhaled . |
| 22 | Individual Unionists played important parts in the government and many Unionist policies were implemented in full , but the party as a whole never took the government to heart as its own . |
| 23 | During his address Sir Lewis took the opportunity to scotch rumours , which appeared in the Independent on Sunday , that he was due to retire . |
| 24 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Before he took the trip to America , he had another film to make , during one of the most prolific periods of his career . |
| 26 | Coxswain Robert McMullan took the lifeboat to Ballycastle and on the way it became clear , via the Coastguard , that a large number of people had been stranded as the Rive Tow burst its banks . |
| 27 | AT&T fought hard to hang on to its equipment businesses through telephone deregulation — the Justice Department took the firm to court on the issue in 1949 and again in 1974 . |
| 28 | In an operation co-ordinated by the UN , four ferry boats were sent to the Albanian port of Durres and took the refugees to Brindisi in Italy , where special trains were waiting to take the majority to West Germany . |
| 29 | The upwind leg took the fleets to Methersgate Quay which was followed by a superb broad reach back . |
| 30 | After visiting the Pleasure Beach and Bispham , the Lifeboat diverted from the Promenade at the Gynn and took the Duke to North Station to catch his train ! |