Example sentences of "taking [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 2 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 3 | ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’ |
| 4 | How about taking me out for a drink then ? |
| 5 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 6 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 7 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 8 | Not only will I be dealing with some of your concerns through ‘ Vet 's Corner ’ , but I am taking them up with the very people who make the food — with some eye-opening results ! |
| 9 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 10 | That might have attracted more women and young readers — but by taking them partly from the Mirror . |
| 11 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 12 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 13 | Would you mind taking them through into the third-class refreshment room ? ’ |
| 14 | They bark and jump around excitedly , becoming particularly frenetic if you stop somewhere else , rather than taking them immediately for a walk . |
| 15 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 16 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 17 | ‘ We came here the Saturday before last and won in the League , now we 're pleased to be taking them back to the Bridge this time . |
| 18 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 19 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 20 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 21 | It even seems to be capable of converting the fonts across by rasterising them and taking them across as a bitmap that the film recorder will image as a graphic . |
| 22 | They ran away , although this was taking them further into the old town when they had hoped to escape from it . |
| 23 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 24 | BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN TAKING THEM OUT OF THE OVEN AND USE OVEN GLOVES . |
| 25 | The pages lie out flat on the desk when the cords are extended , so that it is possible to write the pages without taking them out of the binders . |
| 26 | The porter , now half-sober , greeted them as old friends and , taking them out of the priory , sketched a description of the track across the fields and meadows . |
| 27 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 28 | ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice . |
| 29 | I will tell my steward that I am taking you on to the staff as — ’ he paused for thought for a moment' — as a tax consultant . |
| 30 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |