Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece .
2 Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line .
3 and takes him from the hospital up to Southwold .
4 I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) .
5 If she does create a new four-bead group , she ‘ wins ’ these four beads and takes them off the board , leaving the hole empty .
6 This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be .
7 She buys them and takes them to and all
8 Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources .
9 He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and
10 But at this point the story takes an abrupt turn , and takes us into territory that at first seems quite strange , beyond even our imagining , let alone our experience .
11 Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development .
12 The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation .
13 was minding on , cos everybody the next thing was , the next one takes her top and takes it off her shoulder
14 Right now she 's carrying around a soft hand puppet , and takes it to her basket each night .
15 He picks up the Business Section of the Times and takes it into the kitchen .
16 He extracts the letter and takes it behind his umbrella ; the light of his lantern shines through the fabric , HAMLET emerges again with a letter , and replaces it , and retires , blowing out his lantern .
17 He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands .
18 Each of the group members presents one of the units , and takes it in turn to entertain their fellow travellers by talking about their interests in life or about their travels .
19 The red colobus , however , needs fruit all the year round and takes it from a greater variety of dispersed tree species ; it thus requires a larger range which can support a correspondingly larger troop .
20 He is a prominent member of the Christadelphians sect which mounted the exhibition and takes it from town to town , week by week , year by year .
21 And erm each one begins here at the Archaeological Resource Centre and takes you through alleyways and back passages explains , where to go er with drawings text and explains it all .
22 If he told Mr Jackson then he 'd come and take me to Combe Court , and I do n't want that .
23 I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning .
24 ‘ But … but why did n't she come and take me with her ?
25 By the way her mother fiddled with the handle of her wicker basket Constance could tell that she was longing for the bus to come and take her to Chollerton where her beauty and style might stand some chance of being noticed .
26 She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time .
27 So I have to turn over and take her in my arms .
28 Yet , though she longed to flee from him , to put huge distances between them , there was something drawing her , some mystery in him that seemed to reach out and take her in its clutches .
29 In John 6:15 , there is a curious statement , that ‘ Jesus , who could see why they were about to come and take him by force and make him king , escaped back to the hills by himself . ’
30 Already Parfois seemed to lie behind them , and Harry had almost lost that tense expectation that at every step someone would reach out and take him by the shoulder to haul him back into captivity .
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