Example sentences of "was take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
2 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
3 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
4 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
5 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
6 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |