Example sentences of "take they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Other satellites are in a near-polar orbit which takes them over the Arctic and Antarctic regions .
2 These dolphins are oceanic travellers , with a migration route Of thousands of kilometres which takes them past the southern coastline of Japan on both legs of their annual migration .
3 From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings .
4 They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows .
5 Some would take them to the top half of the dale , and the others the bottom half .
6 Our lucky couple will fly with USAir to Las Vegas where a limousine will take them to the sensational medieval-style Excalibur Hotel for their six-night stay .
7 ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’
8 A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos .
9 The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war .
10 He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio .
11 She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry .
12 Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit .
13 Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 .
14 The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard .
15 I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’
16 The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child .
17 While the aircraft was unloaded the crew was spirited away by car through the back roads of the airport by a civilian with a machine-gun , who took them to the old Sheraton Hotel and offered them cakes and coffee .
18 Stephen took them up the zig-zag track .
19 Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner .
20 The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car .
21 We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt .
22 That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route .
23 He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division .
24 He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that .
25 She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened .
26 'Cos he took them boots and it was my job to take them to the big house for the gentleman . ’
27 They made their way down Friday Street , Old Fish Street and into the Vintry , and hired a wherry at Oueenshithe Wharf to take them along the choppy river to the-Savoy Palace .
28 Langbaurgh Council 's refuse collection service will pick up sacks full of plastic carriers and take them to the British Visqueen factory in Stockton for recycling .
29 take them into the surgical wards , the medical patients
30 The main target is striped dolphins , whose migration paths ( arrowed ) take them past the southern and eastern coastlines of Japan every year .
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