Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |
| 2 | I find it very depressing because it takes me away from the constructive side of the business and into being a sort of financial PR and being defensive . |
| 3 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 4 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 5 | They have a streamlined routine — lunch at the Market Cafe on the same street as their house , a local barber and tailor — which never takes them far from home and avoids unprogrammed encounters . |
| 6 | A peasant catches two partridges , takes them home to his wife to cook and sets off to invite the village priest to join them . |
| 7 | If you are blind or physically disabled or your work regularly takes you away from home , you may qualify to vote by post or proxy for an indefinite period . |
| 8 | ‘ Carribean Blue ’ takes you right outside the atmosphere , to a dream of release . |
| 9 | A ‘ train ride ’ takes you right into town where all the action is . |
| 10 | Among the many tours available , the Ghost Walk of York will take you on a quite literally ‘ haunting ’ tour , while a river tour along the Ouse takes you right through the city centre . |
| 11 | Leaving early in the morning , this safari takes you high above the drifting game on the reserve in the clear morning light . |
| 12 | The ‘ Maid of the Mist ’ takes you closer to Niagara Falls |
| 13 | Bearing in mind it 's a team focus course so I 'm not giving you loads of work which takes you apart from one another , what we do is you talk together , and spend time together . |
| 14 | ; Maj It 's , it takes you , takes you virtually down the coast er through Gaza Strip into Egypt , that way . |
| 15 | Compare this with the diagonal , twisting advance that takes you directly into the opponent or , if you prefer , the diagonal withdrawal that times your response to coincide with a lull in the attack . |
| 16 | N — New Option This avoids the use of further index pages and takes you directly to the Option prompt , so that you can enter the number of the option you require . |
| 17 | N — New Option This avoids the use of further index pages and takes you directly to the option prompt , so that you can enter the 3 digit number of the option you require . |
| 18 | The Zwolferhorn gondola takes you directly from St Gilgen up to the top of the Zwolferhorn mountain . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 20 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 21 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |
| 22 | The wind takes him away like a curtain snatch on a bad act . |
| 23 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 24 | She takes him home to her swish apartment . |
| 25 | Her husband has just got a head and a torso now but their devotion is very touching , she takes him everywhere in her saddle-bag . |
| 26 | ‘ His business takes him all over the world . ’ |
| 27 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 28 | Well absolutely I mean this is the way that things have always worked and the County Council makes a global assessment of requirements for a particular district and the district council then takes it forward with assumptions on small sites , windfall sites er and major allocations that they may be mad making . |
| 29 | Away goes Lawrence to , takes it again with the bottom hand away from the bat , it 's off the back foot this time , stabbing it down in front of him , a short of a length ball . |
| 30 | The Bill gives protection with one hand and takes it away with the other . |