Example sentences of "[adv] take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , it only takes him about ten minutes to get home . |
| 2 | It only takes him twenty five minutes ? |
| 3 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 4 | He decided to write home asking his mother how everything was back at Gibbet Hall and if she could come to visit him , or even better take him away . |
| 5 | ‘ Better take him back to ask the questions , ’ the policeman said . |
| 6 | Yes , you 'd better take him along now . |
| 7 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 8 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 9 | Sometimes her beauty so took him by surprise , that he lost the thread of speech . |
| 10 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 11 | An aide had apparently taken him aside and told him to do something fast about his image . |
| 12 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 13 | Nowhere else is big enough to take him and he should know the score . |
| 14 | Like Emerson he finished second in his Swift but that was good enough to take him clear of his main rivals with one round remaining . |
| 15 | K. R. I 've moved on people sleeping rough — perhaps take him a hundred yards from the shop wherever he was — ‘ On your way . |
| 16 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 17 | His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped . |
| 18 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 19 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 20 | The Storys leave for Rome at the end of this month and can not take him with them . |
| 21 | Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously . |
| 22 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 23 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 24 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 25 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 26 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 27 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I shall not take him to Court . |
| 29 | She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … . |
| 30 | The Asian client 's basic pension does not take him or her above income support levels . |