Example sentences of "[prep] take [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after taking their patients to hospital , the six ambulancemen involved were all suspended without pay for refusing to work normally . |
| 2 | When his character leaps at Eileen after taking her home from a jazz club , he starts a chain reaction involving a dog , all the cats in the district , crying babies , shouting neighbours and the sound of breaking glass . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrat councillor Joe Michna accused Labour-controlled Middlesbrough Council , which backed the scheme , of taking its people for granted . |
| 4 | HUMORIST Dave Barry has just published a book which anyone thinking of taking their holidays in America might want to read . |
| 5 | Teesdale cattle farmers now face the more expensive journeys of taking their steers to Darlington , Bishop Auckland and Tow Law . |
| 6 | This principle was extended to civil servants who had the alternative remedy of taking their complaints to an industrial tribunal . |
| 7 | Hardly anybody else about except the schoolteachers ever thought of taking their children to the sea . ’ |
| 8 | Ruth supposed it was Mrs Peterson 's way of taking her mind off the sad events of last week . |
| 9 | If you want to camp throughout the year and want the option of taking your tent into the mountains as well as camping at low levels , then these are the designs you should be looking at . |
| 10 | When did you last , after such a hug , instead of taking your partner to bed , take him or her by the hand and walk into the garden ? |
| 11 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 12 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 13 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 14 | In addition , we will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your caravan to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after repair to your address as shown on the schedule . |
| 15 | With each passing decade , the chances of losing our parents increases , as does the awesome inevitability of taking our turn at what Gail Sheehy describes as ‘ the front of the generational train ’ . |
| 16 | By his order dated 8 April 1992 , made on the application of the defendants to the actions and opposed on behalf of the Crown by the Treasury Solicitor , the deputy judge directed that Dr. Hayes attend before an examiner for the purpose of taking his evidence on oath . |
| 17 | As he dropped this cynical confession he looked straight and hard at the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand ( 5 ) . |
| 18 | In the first paragraph , Pemberton is referred to as " the poor young man " ( 1 ) , " the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand " ( 5 ) and " this personage ( 6 ) , as well as by the standard devices of name and pronoun . |
| 19 | The rather pompous periphrasis " the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand " doubtless represents the boy 's self-centred view of Pemberton , but in language quite above the boy 's apparently limited powers of expression : what it seems to express is Pemberton 's image of himself as he sees it reflected through the mind of the child . |
| 20 | Rauschning made the mistake of taking his complaint to Hitler . |
| 21 | His manager Barney Eastwood gave Hodkinson the option of taking his career in another direction , rather than fight the Mexican . |
| 22 | I knew that , as I had no intention of taking my eyes off it . |
| 23 | It was easy — like taking your dog for a walk . |
| 24 | Various people came after Kathleen , but no-one came anywhere near taking her place for either of us . |
| 25 | Despite their significance , it is necessary to place them within their historical and literary context , in order to appreciate the complexity of Gregory 's achievement , and so as to avoid being hoodwinked into taking his work at face value . |
| 26 | Though he deceived the beholder into taking his artifice for reality , Zeuxis practised an idealist art . |
| 27 | We 've got ta expand upon the magnificent work that the Southern Region and our colleagues have done , and if necessary we 've got ta take our campaign against Tylers to national level . |
| 28 | So Hanson went ahead and brought in outside touring companies that offered simple sets , and a cast of up to ten people , who could stage a place that found its own level in front of people who did n't think twice about live theatre apart from taking their youngsters to the pantomime at Christmas . |
| 29 | A WOMAN barred from taking her dog into a shopping centre in Uxbridge , Middlesex , returned with a horse — and was thrown out again . |
| 30 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |