Example sentences of "had taken them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | On 5 December 1991 the father applied for an order that his two children be returned to the jurisdiction of the State of Victoria , Australia , on the ground that the mother had taken them without his consent in breach of the joint custodial rights vested in him under the Australian Family Law Act 1975 . |
2 | The day after the ambulance took Ma away , the rotary drier vanished ; on the Sunday it had been loaded with sheets ( I had taken them down myself . |
3 | An open space between two darkened structures — warehouses , Alexei thought , although he was not sure that their route had taken them across that quarter of the city — appeared out of the mist to their left like the mouth of an open tomb , and Jotan caught Alexei 's arm and indicated it . |
4 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
5 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
6 | The medical profession were n't the fools I had taken them for . |
7 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
8 | Neither the salts nor the drug were illegal in either Scotland or England and Johnson , along with other team-mates , had taken them as part of their pre-match rituals on many occasions . |
9 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
10 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
11 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
12 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
13 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
14 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
15 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
16 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
17 | But when Eliot asked how she would get the keys to the desk , she realized her suggestion had been useless : she had forgotten that Maureen had taken them from her . |
18 | Claudia had taken them from her when she 'd discovered her sister was making no effort to sleep naturally . |
19 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
20 | Four farms , nearly eight hundred acres — Wyatt had taken them in settlement of various wagers . |