Example sentences of "and take [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chen wanted to reach out and take Herrick by the throat and choke him to death , but first he had to get hold of the copy and get out with it . |
| 2 | Rising to his feet , Bob Lamb reached down and taking Martha by the hands , pulled her up . |
| 3 | Yardley was a golden boy pre-war who achieved almost every prize life and sport had to offer except , probably , the two he craved most : recovering the Ashes from Australia and taking Yorkshire to the County Championship . |
| 4 | " What I look like , " Slater said , coming forward and taking Graham by the elbow to continue walking , " is somebody who has discovered an old pair of RAF pilot 's boots at a market stall in Camden . " |
| 5 | Zacco raised his hand from his sword and took Nicholas by the face in hard fingers . |
| 6 | He reached out and took Tabitha by the arm . |
| 7 | An elbow came back and took Pascoe beside the ribs . |
| 8 | At that moment a policeman arrived and took Oliver by the collar . |
| 9 | He leaned down and took Piper by the shirtfront , hauling him upright then turning the man and running him backwards across the room . |
| 10 | At last a man with silvery smiling eyes in a brown face introduced himself as Luiz Santana , husband of Clem 's twin , Charity , and took Leonora into the dining-room when Clem was called away to great more arrivals . |
| 11 | Two men in white coats ran in and took Susan by the arms . |
| 12 | He was contemptuous towards the United Nations , critical of the operation of the western alliance , and hostile to supranationalist tendencies in Europe ( even though , for pragmatic reasons , he had honoured the Treaty of Rome and taken France into the Common Market ) . |