Example sentences of "to take [pron] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 3 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 4 | Will you ? ’ rather than , ‘ Would you like me to take you out for a run in the car some time ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be back in an hour to take you down for a tour of the lodge and to meet Mrs Foster . |
| 6 | She could n't go out and play with the other kids , she had to take him round for a walk |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her Uncle Tom is delighted and arranges to take her out for a slap up meal . |
| 9 | He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal . |
| 10 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |