Example sentences of "take [noun prp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Dan Sperber takes Lévi-Strauss to task for claiming that kinship systems should be regarded as a language with the circulation of women taking the place of the circulation of words :
2 Tonight 's game against Turkey will not have any influence on USA'94 : we are alreay qualified — but a win might take Norway to top of the FIFA ranking and i guess all the players want to show that they can perform even in such a ‘ meaningless ’ game .
3 So you 'll take Paul to church in the morning will you ?
4 This errand of death which took Nizan to Spain for the fourth time within fourteen months was symbolically appropriate .
5 Younis and Wasim Akram added 46 for the ninth wicket , taking Pakistan to victory from the depths of 95 for 8
6 In The Independent , Justine Picardie took Faludi to task for skating over the reasons why older feminists like Germaine Greer and Betty Friedan had modified the radicalism of their youth in the light of experience .
7 That night , Edward took Erica to dinner at the Savoy Grill in the Strand and explained that he would not be leaving after all .
8 I remember that , a few years later , when I took Richard to London for the first time , we experienced a very heavy raid .
9 ‘ You took Heather to dinner at the Skein of Geese in Haslemere on the tenth of September , did n't you , Doctor ? ’
10 Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of .
11 When they returned from Anglesey , Christine took Anna to school with her , where she started to learn ‘ in leaps and bounds ’ .
12 This time Seitz , in an otherwise logical column , took Norman to task for going to a sports psychologist and suggested that Levi was ‘ probably ’ a better ‘ all-round ’ player .
13 The maritime chronometer took Britain to pre-eminence in safe navigation and helped secure the empire .
14 He defended himself vigorously , and took Theo to task for parroting their father 's words .
15 This machine , which was raced in only three races , took Mackenzie to victory in the Sunflower International meeting at Kirkistown in October .
16 In Paris he bought mince pies and English marmalade , took Colette to tea at the British Dairy , shared a blazing plum pudding with her at Christmas , drank whisky instead of wine at a dinner party at Fouquet 's , spent two summer holidays in Dieppe because it was so English , and there made friends with Walter Sickert , William Nicholson , Reggie Turner , Ada Leverson , Marie Tempest and Max Beerbohm .
17 Dr Atkinson took John to hospital in her own car .
18 Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two .
19 Enough money came in by mid-March for Chris , a Courtaulds worker for 18 years , and Lorraine to take Leannda to Boston for the first step in the long road to restoring her sight .
20 McLelland developed a plan to take Greenock to 55% by 1994 — by sending a quarter of his employees to university !
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