Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 4 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 5 | So I decided to take them outside for a breath of fresh air , ’ she added , turning her worried blue eyes in mute appeal to the uniformed policewoman sitting in the corner of the room . |
| 6 | If you can imagine someone losing their job , the depression that actually causes , perhaps both within them and with their family , the idea of being able to take them away for a holiday to forget about things might be a good thing at the end of the day . |
| 7 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 8 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 9 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 10 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 11 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 12 | " No , we 're busy , I 'll get someone to take you up in a minute . " |
| 13 | Will you ? ’ rather than , ‘ Would you like me to take you out for a run in the car some time ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be back in an hour to take you down for a tour of the lodge and to meet Mrs Foster . |
| 15 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 16 | She could n't go out and play with the other kids , she had to take him round for a walk |
| 17 | Had to take him home in a taxi and we had to book out for him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Anderson , married with two sons and based at Surbiton , has denied raping the woman after agreeing to take her home from a discotheque last March . |
| 20 | Her Uncle Tom is delighted and arranges to take her out for a slap up meal . |
| 21 | He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She might let me to take her out in a minute . |
| 24 | We had to take her out in a chair . |
| 25 | Waiting games with Rembrandt and Vermeer : Brian Cathcart learns how to take it easy on a trip to The Hague , our last Channel Hop |
| 26 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 27 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 28 | Ten-year-old Luke Johnson dug it up and thinking it was ‘ dead ’ , planned to take it home as an ornament . |
| 29 | I mean if you had to take it along to a shop and |
| 30 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |