Example sentences of "taken [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 2 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 3 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 4 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 5 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
| 6 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 7 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 8 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 9 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 10 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh you have n't taken them off the tree ? ’ |
| 12 | Nicola had taken them off the path and into a dense part of the wood . |
| 13 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 14 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 15 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 16 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 17 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 19 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 20 | If your studies have not taken you to the point where you can answer all the questions , answer those that you can and some of them twice . |
| 21 | IT is probably unwise to record in print that a man who is not your lawfully wedded husband has taken you to the heights of unbridled rapture . |
| 22 | ‘ 1 , Yahweh , have called you to serve the cause of right ; I have taken you by the hand and formed you ; I have appointed you as covenant of the people and light of the nations . |
| 23 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 24 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 25 | Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he was n't being moved sideways or demoted . |
| 26 | Did , they took him , taken him off the life support ? |
| 27 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 28 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 29 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 30 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |