Example sentences of "taking [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Would you mind taking them through into the third-class refreshment room ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN TAKING THEM OUT OF THE OVEN AND USE OVEN GLOVES . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're taking you down to the Pacific for a bathe , ’ I told her . |
| 16 | Taking you back to the poly manager , if somebody says , somebody says to you , ‘ Well what are you doing about it ? ’ you say , ‘ I do n't know at the moment , have n't got enough facts . ’ |
| 17 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
| 18 | It was a nostalgic sound , taking him back to the flat in Notting Hill where he and Frances had started their married life ; and started Juliet ; and , in a way , started living apart . |
| 19 | Given the dating technique of the time Halling Man was thought to have been Aurignacian , taking him back to the closing phase of the Ice Age . |
| 20 | ‘ We are taking him back to the institution . |
| 21 | Stanley 's family helped initially by taking him out to the pub , but he was worse on his return . |
| 22 | Taking him along to the Daniel Rouah Barber Shop in Baker St. , London . |
| 23 | I regressed Carol to the night of the crime , taking her back to the outing to the cinema rather than straight to the heart of the distressing incident . |
| 24 | ‘ Iris is all in and I 'm taking her back to the Lion d'Or for dinner . |
| 25 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 26 | He continued downstairs , taking her out of the house towards the river . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's taking her out in the boat , ’ I thought . |
| 28 | Then run a spur cable as in option 1 , taking it on from the box to the new wall light(s) , which will be controlled by the same switch as the existing light . |
| 29 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 30 | I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’ |