Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to task " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another was hopeful of joining Ford — he took me to task for this magazine 's criticisms of the new Escort . |
| 2 | Sarge — his real name was Paul Sargeant — was an Australian who had modelled himself on John Belushi and disapproved of good language ( he once took me to task for using the word ‘ carouse ’ ) . |
| 3 | A month later my mother took me to task : |
| 4 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 5 | Professor Ronald H Girdwood , the chairman of the Scottish Blood Transfusion Association , took me to task in a letter at the end of last month . |
| 6 | Lowly Nottingham took them to task … and took them apart … 26-14 . |
| 7 | Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six . |
| 8 | His retention of this argument is somewhat surprising given that Harloe ( 1984 ) took him to task for it in very exact terms in a rejoinder to an article on housing tenure , in which many of its central propositions were advanced . |
| 9 | Daniel Field wrote in 1976 that " The fear of peasant unrest … can not be shown to have been decisive in the decision to emancipate " , but Larisa Zakharova took him to task eight years later for failing to explain the emancipation in terms of " the fear of a peasant rising or the moods and struggle of the peasantry " . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |