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 . |