Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He said right then I suppose you 're going to take me over the wee pub now .
2 Father had promised to take me with the added bonus of an afternoon off school .
3 The right hand pulling on a not very positive lay-off and the left gripping a tenuous pinch , I moved up , expecting friction on the slab above to take me to a small shelf .
4 She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea .
5 My old mum used to take me to the fair there .
6 He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests .
7 I have four sons and can not afford to take them to a first team game ( £10 each to get in ! )
8 One of them hailed me and gave me a fiver to take them to a private clinic in Harley Street .
9 If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’
10 The parents of children found to be suffering from any illness at a fieldworker 's visit were advised to take them to the nearest health facility for diagnosis and treatment .
11 He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that .
12 She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened .
13 But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town .
14 'Cos he took them boots and it was my job to take them to the big house for the gentleman . ’
15 They made their way down Friday Street , Old Fish Street and into the Vintry , and hired a wherry at Oueenshithe Wharf to take them along the choppy river to the-Savoy Palace .
16 Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance .
17 I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser .
18 ‘ I 've made arrangements to take you to a second-hand shop .
19 Then catch the 79 Seatoller service from Keswick to take you to the southern end of Derwentwater .
20 ‘ It would be better , mademoiselle , for me to take you to the nearest syndicat d'initiative .
21 The keystrokes necessary for this type of save are — starting with the worksheet on your screen — / ( to take you to the main menu ) , G ( for graph ) and S ( for save ) .
22 To get there just ask any taxi driver to take you to the public beach near the village of Hell .
23 What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ?
24 If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit .
25 And again in abbreviated form that , I just want to take you through the molecular basis for endotoxin action .
26 The instructor will use a dry land simulator to take you through the basic techniques and introduce the equipment gradually .
27 I was just building up my first business then , and a thing like that is a bit like riding a roller-coaster — you need all the speed you can collect on the downhill runs to take you over the next hump .
28 Oh I 've got to take you in the Chinese shop .
29 Oh , I 've got to take you in the Chinese shop
30 ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen .
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