Example sentences of "[pron] take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could I take you out to lunch ? ’ |
| 2 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 3 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
| 4 | In fact I remember I took him out of school for nearly three weeks to try and |
| 5 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 6 | The programme was a shambles and I took her out to dinner to cheer her up . |
| 7 | If I took her out of school I would be prosecuted , I 'm sure . |
| 8 | And in September ninety two , if I took you back to sort of September ninety one figures were quite different , well in September ninety two , eighty nine percent of our business was next day . |
| 9 | round , I 've , I have checked bathroom , I took it out of bathroom and guess what , I did n't check ? |
| 10 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 11 | I know , but the on the kitchen window sill , I take them off at night . |
| 12 | Sergeant before I take you on to deal with the briefing itself , I just want to go back and ask you one thing . |
| 13 | Why not stay here tonight and on the morrow I will have someone take you over to Briar Cottage with a wagon ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 16 | I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 18 | She did not try to soothe him , but she took him away from Skid Row , pulling him into a kingsize bed with freshly-laundered sheets . |
| 19 | Then she took him out to supper to celebrate , Philip and Pat joining in , and the evening became one of those when the participants have to pause , to say to themselves : Yes , this is me , it really is me Happiness sat with them at the table in the Seashell Fish'n'Chips ; they could not stop smiling , or Jim from laughing and sighing . |
| 20 | ‘ The Countess did all she could for me , arranging for me to have the baby away from the Castle , because of gossip in the servants ’ hall , and afterwards she took me back into service . |
| 21 | Each time I went to Bristol , she took me out for tea on her own , or with a girlfriend . |
| 22 | It was Robert who took her in to dinner . |
| 23 | However , once again it was he who took her in to dinner . |
| 24 | McBride said in early 1980 that Debendox , a remedy for morning sickness , was , like Thalidomide , ‘ capable of causing deformities in a small percentage of the embryos of women who took it early in pregnancy ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Do excuse us , you took us so by surprise . ’ |
| 26 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 27 | that 's why your clothes are always fishy when you take them off at night then ? |
| 28 | Yes , Tuesdays , the accounts manager , I think if everybody wants to get that reaction , if that 's the regular reaction that they get , you know , people dumping on them all the time , it is water off a duck 's back , you take it more , you take it more on board if it is an occasional thing , . |
| 29 | ‘ Why do n't we take her out to dinner ? ’ said Lili . |
| 30 | ‘ Ca n't we take it out to sea ? ’ |