Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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1 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
2 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
3 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |
4 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
5 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |
6 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
7 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
8 | I had to take them back to the shop , and try another chemist . |
9 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
10 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
11 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
12 | ‘ Mrs Richards , if you wo n't let me call an ambulance , I 'll have to take you through to the sick bay here , and nurse you myself . |
13 | ‘ I 'm going to take you round to the studio , Midge . |
14 | ‘ Well , get your best friend to take you home , ’ said the first constable , ‘ or we might have to take you down to the station for the good of your health . ’ |
15 | ‘ Get up and behave yourself or Marie will have to take you back to the nursery , ’ their father ordered . |
16 | ‘ I 've got to take you back to the mainland , ’ he grated , turning to face her . |
17 | We feel that we have largely succeeded in these aims , but more of that later , as I would like to take you back to the early nineteenth century when the object of our association was first mooted . |
18 | ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’ |
19 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
20 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
21 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
22 | No-one 's got to go very far to take him down to the beach . |
23 | Afterwards I had to take him out to the pub to revive him . ’ |
24 | They offered to take her down to the sea , so off they went — accompanied by the Dares ' three dogs , hideous mongrels with hearts of gold . |
25 | A while later , when she was finished and dressed and sitting alone , Charlie came to take her out to the taxi . |
26 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
27 | One cold , windy day Marion nerved herself to take it down to the clachan to barter for food and wool , and found herself still ignored . |
28 | And I used to take it down to the grave yard . |
29 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
30 | The XJ 40 had done 10,000 miles and he was glad of an excuse to take it back to the UK for a proper service . |