Example sentences of "taken the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you had taken the cab to Reading . ’ |
| 2 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 3 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 4 | Many people whose films have been lost have taken the processors to court , winning compensation for more than the cost of the film . |
| 5 | It was the first time that an artist had taken the company to court . |
| 6 | It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety . |
| 7 | Mr Dane ( 50 ) from Mountsandel Road , Coleraine , had taken the board to court in March following his dismissal for allegedly failing in his duties to train junior doctors . |
| 8 | In between , and amid the unprecedented furore over the axing of Clive Rice and Jimmy Cook , Wessels had become South Africa 's new captain and had taken the squad to Australasia for the World Cup . |
| 9 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 10 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 11 | The whole palace seemed deserted , as if the Royal family and all the staff had already taken the road to Varennes . |
| 12 | They had already taken the play to Lancaster as well as performing it in Durham , and now had the assembly of the pageant down to a fine art , taking about two hours to mount the superstructure . |
| 13 | This time the losers , including the cities of New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Houston , and the US Conference of Mayors , have taken the bureau to court to try to make it agree to change its initial 1990 findings and to add in its estimated under-count . |
| 14 | She had discussed it with her family ; hugged Lisa and Sue , kissed Jim , left home , and taken the tube to Acton where she stuck out her thumb on the edge of the A40 on a smiling spring day and gone home . |
| 15 | ‘ Daddy has taken the van to Mr Sparks . |
| 16 | He was a businessman , an entrepreneur whose roller-coaster fortunes had taken the family to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica for about four years . |
| 17 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 18 | One more visit and the picture of the man who had taken the package to Moscow would be fuller and acceptable as a memorandum to the Deputy Under Secretary . |
| 19 | Young Francesca has even taken the pig to school , and says she enjoys playing games . |
| 20 | Young Francesca has even taken the pig to school , and says she enjoys playing games . |
| 21 | Oriel Stainton-Kelly revealed that her daughter Francesca had taken the pig to school . |
| 22 | Oriel Stainton-Kelly revealed that her daughter Francesca had taken the pig to school . |