Example sentences of "[verb] take [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then if it if if we have it down in reception for a bit , er and it works and does n't look like falling to bits , the we could consider taking it along to the Newark Show as well . |
| 2 | There were kids dressed in velvet cloaks who lived free lives ; there were thousands of black people everywhere , so I would n't feel exposed ; there were bookshops with racks of magazines printed without capital letters or the bourgeois disturbance of full stops ; there were shops selling all the records you could desire ; there were parties where girls and boys you did n't know took you upstairs and fucked you ; there were all the drugs you could use . |
| 3 | Pam Dixon 's here , the bearded wonder has taken himself off for the weekend |
| 4 | It has taken her just 24 months to learn the rules . |
| 5 | Her son has taken her up in his hang-glider ( can you carry two on a hang-glider ? ) , and she recalls her life and loves as she sails over the old family farm and the nearby manganese factory where it all happened . |
| 6 | A : The Good Lord , in his wisdom , has taken her away from us . |
| 7 | Marjorie 's hobby has taken her all over Scotland and abroad . |
| 8 | Her work has taken her all over the world . |
| 9 | I gather your nursemaid has taken her off to her own home today . ’ |
| 10 | Alain has taken her back by car . |
| 11 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 12 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 13 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 14 | ‘ My job as an engineer has taken me all over the world , ’ says Bob , who lives in Kirkdale and now works for GEC . |
| 15 | Camping has taken me all over England and twice to Scotland . |
| 16 | Silas has taken me there twice . ’ |
| 17 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 18 | Indeed , it has taken me more than three years to cast off my British cynicism and truly comprehend the value of freedom in America . |
| 19 | A sinister impulse to collect and to eat has taken them over . |
| 20 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 21 | Each manoeuvre in their rearguard action has taken them further away from intuitive notions about that exciting enterprise referred to as science . |
| 22 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 23 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 24 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 25 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 26 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 27 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 28 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 29 | ‘ Victoria has taken him home . ’ |
| 30 | For the Prince , it was the beginning of a love affair , one that has taken him back to Italy on many occasions . |