Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
| 62 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 63 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 64 | Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ? |
| 65 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 66 | Instead , he wholeheartedly takes them over : they show up materialism as an inadequate position and leave the way open for his spiritual immaterialism , with God at its centre . |
| 67 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 68 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 69 | And three more points takes them right back into the battle for the promotion play-off . |
| 70 | There , they presumably drink themselves into a stupor on black PVC bar stools before the coach comes and takes them somewhere even worse , like Aviemore . |
| 71 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 72 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 73 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |
| 74 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 75 | They have a streamlined routine — lunch at the Market Cafe on the same street as their house , a local barber and tailor — which never takes them far from home and avoids unprogrammed encounters . |
| 76 | takes them in like erm turn it around every week , do n't know yet |
| 77 | 's interest in discursive structure takes them too far from psychology , and their fascination with an absolutely psychological unconscious brings them too close to it for them to be able to pursue feminist and psychological interests together . |
| 78 | In early winter , when the first snows come , he wears socks in the boots , but when it gets cold he takes them off and replaces them with grass . |
| 79 | He takes them off , and yawns . |
| 80 | When my husband takes his shirts off I have to wash them straight away — like he wears two shirts on Sunday and I wash them as soon as he takes them off . |
| 81 | With this " terminal drop " model of ageing ( Wilson 1991 ) old people stay reasonably healthy and independent till some final trauma takes them off . |
| 82 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 83 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
| 84 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 85 | He takes them home . |
| 86 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 87 | A peasant catches two partridges , takes them home to his wife to cook and sets off to invite the village priest to join them . |
| 88 | I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks |
| 89 | I wonder how long it takes them now to cut the roads . |
| 90 | All sociologists whose work takes them out of the library and brings them into contact with living beings are certain to use the interview in their work . |