Example sentences of "taken [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 2 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 3 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 6 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 7 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 8 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
| 9 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 10 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 11 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 12 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh you have n't taken them off the tree ? ’ |
| 14 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 15 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 16 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 17 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 18 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 19 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 20 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 21 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 22 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 23 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 25 | If your studies have not taken you to the point where you can answer all the questions , answer those that you can and some of them twice . |
| 26 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 27 | IT is probably unwise to record in print that a man who is not your lawfully wedded husband has taken you to the heights of unbridled rapture . |
| 28 | ‘ 1 , Yahweh , have called you to serve the cause of right ; I have taken you by the hand and formed you ; I have appointed you as covenant of the people and light of the nations . |
| 29 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 30 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |