Example sentences of "[vb past] to take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 2 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 3 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 4 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
| 5 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 6 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 7 | And he went to take her by the arm , for he feared that she might fall — only for an even worse horror to grip Sally-Anne , so that she pushed him violently away , quite unable to control herself , stammering , ‘ No — no … ’ |
| 8 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 9 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 10 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 11 | Paul Ingouf then said that they wished to take us to the spot where the aircraft had crashed . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 13 | ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’ |
| 14 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 15 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 16 | ’ You had to take it from the inspector , you ca n't answer back . |
| 17 | So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales . |
| 18 | type canoe , India , Indian canoe type thing you see and the blo but he was a an old mariner , he was seventy seven and he volunteered to take us on the river . |
| 19 | He refused to take her to the pub to have a drink , explaining that he did not want to hurt Jayne , who would not approve of his energy being spent on anything other than skating . |
| 20 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 21 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 22 | He wanted to take me to the dance , you see . |
| 23 | The King wanted to take me round the garden . |
| 24 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 25 | Wi , Joan wanted to take it into the party the other night they would n't let her . |