Example sentences of "taking [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the crowd shifted around me , thankfully taking me away from their gazes . |
| 2 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 3 | Suddenly , from out of the shadows , a man ran towards my car , yanked open the passenger door and jumped in , taking me completely by surprise . |
| 4 | ‘ Hilary 's taking me home on Sunday , ’ said Pickerage , fighting against sleep . |
| 5 | I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’ |
| 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 | That might have attracted more women and young readers — but by taking them partly from the Mirror . |
| 8 | ‘ Venture capitalists ’ is an appropriate name , because the quest for suitable deals is increasingly taking them away from straightforward MBOs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | ‘ Fool ! ’ he uttered lovingly , kissing the fingers and taking them again within his own . |
| 13 | They bark and jump around excitedly , becoming particularly frenetic if you stop somewhere else , rather than taking them immediately for a walk . |
| 14 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 15 | Bring them home and tell them that you 're taking them home to air . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They ran away , although this was taking them further into the old town when they had hoped to escape from it . |
| 18 | Many miners apprenticed their young sons to the trade taking them underground at 15 , 16 or 17 years of age and paying them their worth , or less . |
| 19 | ‘ I think he 's ruining your life , he 's taking you away from your work , from your thinking , toward something empty and false — he 's certainly wasting your time , they both are , they 're exploiting you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I see this taking you away from me . |
| 21 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 22 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm not taking you home in a stroppy mood Aaron we left home in a a stroppy mood |
| 24 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 25 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 26 | Instead of taking him straight to hospital , the gatekeeper has him brought up here . |
| 27 | The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days . |
| 28 | Sir Robert Catesby greeted Agrippa warmly , taking him aside for secret consultations whilst ignoring Benjamin and me . |
| 29 | Smiling at her brand-new husband she slid her hand into his , taking him somewhat by surprise although he responded instantly and correctly by giving her short , brown fingers a squeeze and then , realizing he could do rather better , raising them to his lips . |
| 30 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |