Example sentences of "taken [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first Emma had taken Ruth to the school twice a day , and fetched her home at midday and at night . |
| 2 | His blow had taken Carey on the eyebrow and split it , a long gash that extended to the other brow . |
| 3 | Stephen took particular note of it after he had taken Lyn to the Mootwalk and parked the car in the market square . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean … my daughter had taken Celia to the beach alone ? ’ |
| 5 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 6 | In 1925 , Viscount Grey , the first President of the LNU , who , as Liberal Foreign Secretary , had taken Britain into the war , endorsed the view that ‘ great armaments lead inevitably to war ’ . |
| 7 | Eleven days after he had taken Estabrook to the encampment in Streatham , Chant realized he would soon be having a visitor . |
| 8 | So erm , in fact , I would have loved to have taken Jonathan to the pantomime erm , it 's on until er |
| 9 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |