Example sentences of "and took [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 2 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 3 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |
| 4 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 5 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 6 | It was flown by Geoff Dodd , a company pilot : ‘ I picked up my survival suit , cleared Special Branch , and took off for the Isle of Man suited-up and wearing a life-jacket . |
| 7 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 8 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |
| 9 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |