Example sentences of "have take [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 2 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 3 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 4 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 5 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 6 | Miss Poraway had at once become tearful and Lavinia had had to take her to the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
| 8 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 9 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 10 | Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he was n't being moved sideways or demoted . |
| 11 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 12 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 13 | Graham Taylor , having taken us to the brink of a shock World Cup exit after miserable displays against Poland and Norway , contemplates on the latest national disaster . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have to take you to the optician 's , ’ she said . |
| 15 | So , I shall have to take it to the petrol station in a minute . |
| 16 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd have had to have taken it during the meal or shortly after . |
| 18 | And then when that was done you used to have to take it to the field , and put it in we we used to put it in big heaps and then come back , fill it up , and then go out and spread it . |
| 19 | Anyway , Mrs Aggie had been very sorry she had struck her and she had taken her into the town and bought her a real new bonnet , although she would allow her to wear it only on a Sunday . |
| 20 | Soon after he met Marigold he had taken her to the opera to see Die Walküre and afterwards had said without forethought : |
| 21 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 22 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 23 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 24 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 25 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
| 26 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 27 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 28 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 29 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 30 | I had taken them to the meeting . |