Example sentences of "and takes [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 2 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 3 | and takes him from the hospital up to Southwold . |
| 4 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 5 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 6 | There , they presumably drink themselves into a stupor on black PVC bar stools before the coach comes and takes them somewhere even worse , like Aviemore . |
| 7 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
| 8 | If she does create a new four-bead group , she ‘ wins ’ these four beads and takes them off the board , leaving the hole empty . |
| 9 | Roz Scott Huxley at Manchester Computing Centre has also written a user note for SASPAC91 on the Manchester mainframe ; in addition to explaining commands relating to SASPAC91 , it also assumes the user is not familiar with CMS ( the Conversational Monitor System running on the mainframe ) and the XEDIT editor , and takes them step by step through creating a command file , running it interactively , offline or remotely , and collecting the output ( Scott Huxley 1993 ) . |
| 10 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 11 | She buys them and takes them to and all |
| 12 | But at this point the story takes an abrupt turn , and takes us into territory that at first seems quite strange , beyond even our imagining , let alone our experience . |
| 13 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 14 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 15 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 16 | But though we might have to plough through the politics and suffer with Dennis as we do so , the book still ultimately gets the accept right and takes us out promiscuously to Korea and the Cape , Russia , America , Israel and Morocco . |
| 17 | Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development . |
| 18 | Joanna Quinn 's animation ‘ Girl 's night Out ’ ( 1987 ) leaves hubby behind , and takes us out to ‘ a quiet night with the girls ’ . |
| 19 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 20 | The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation . |
| 21 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 22 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 23 | It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah , yet he cuts the wood for Isaac 's funeral pyre before he sets off , and takes it all the way with him . |
| 24 | Right now she 's carrying around a soft hand puppet , and takes it to her basket each night . |
| 25 | The red colobus , however , needs fruit all the year round and takes it from a greater variety of dispersed tree species ; it thus requires a larger range which can support a correspondingly larger troop . |
| 26 | He picks up the Business Section of the Times and takes it into the kitchen . |
| 27 | He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands . |
| 28 | Each of the group members presents one of the units , and takes it in turn to entertain their fellow travellers by talking about their interests in life or about their travels . |
| 29 | He extracts the letter and takes it behind his umbrella ; the light of his lantern shines through the fabric , HAMLET emerges again with a letter , and replaces it , and retires , blowing out his lantern . |
| 30 | All smelly , and then he gets downs on you , and takes it out on you . |