Example sentences of "took it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 2 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 3 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 4 | She swept up her empty plate and took it into the kitchen , and departed upstairs with her cup of tea to start on her coiffure . |
| 5 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 6 | She took it into the sitting-room where the dictionaries were kept and did her best to translate : It is excellent news that the whole business has been done successfully . |
| 7 | There was one of her dandling a baby , and he took it into the kitchen to her . |
| 8 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 9 | He took it into the box where the keeper came out & spread well , but Wallace knocked it over him into the right side of the net . |
| 10 | Before it could , I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room . |
| 11 | began the camp , there all around this er village and they took it into the er |
| 12 | and now the van 's got the red light heat coming on , on the battery , took it into the garage and checked it , it 's charging the battery alright , its alternator 's okay , but we do n't know what it is but when you turn it on , when you turn the key on in the morning |
| 13 | She took it up the stairs herself , adding another two minutes to the delay because she had to pause and rest half-way up . |
| 14 | And they just happily told me that Oh I just took it up the road for my husband to witness the signature and that totally invalidated the whole will . |
| 15 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 16 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 17 | He took it on the chin . |
| 18 | Ira Sanchez offered a bet and the bookie took it on the nod . |
| 19 | Confronted with Donna 's exuberant wardrobe , she realized there were only two courses open to her : either she took it on the chin ( ‘ straight spine , old girl , ’ ) , or she slunk away and refused to answer the phone when Donna called to see why she had n't been met . |
| 20 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 21 | They took it on the terrace where there was more air and a slight breeze ruffled Jane Postlethwaite 's sleeves . |
| 22 | I took it on the lamp . |
| 23 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 24 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 25 | But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world . |
| 26 | He took it as the closing of the incident . |
| 27 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 28 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 29 | The baby weighed less than one kilo , she took it to the clinic and a clinic worker helped her to a nearby hospital . |
| 30 | He took it to the shop counter , then told the sales assistant that he had changed his mind and wanted lager . |