Example sentences of "[noun prp] to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The future of the Cossacks had also been referred to the Chiefs of Staff by AFHQ on 17 May , and on the same day AFHQ had appealed to SHAEF to take them over .
2 A reddish-brown train was waiting at Helsingborg to take us on to Göteborg , two hundred and forty-three kilometres north , along the west coast .
3 The building intrigued Modigliani , and he asked Osterlind to take him up to see Renoir .
4 James , a £1.3million signing from Watford , looked set for a long run but his mistakes have persuaded Souness to take him out of the spotlight .
5 I 'll ask Campbell to take us on into the question of the role of this aircraft .
6 Finding a small Picasso drawing inscribed ‘ Pour Douglas et John ’ , Richardson begged Billy to take it out of the sale .
7 FOOTBALL managers have asked the FA to take them out of the firing line of the terrace hate mobs .
8 When he landed the job of Beirut bureau chief for Cable News Network , I remember I said to a colleague that if Jerry was ever taken hostage , his kidnappers would probably wind up paying CNN to take him back — and I was only half wrong .
9 Given that the second Tory recession is set to cost 550,000 manufacturing jobs and 100,000 companies and is set to put the United Kingdom at the bottom of the European Community league table on under-investment and employment in 1992 , will the right hon. Gentleman now admit that urgent action is needed to boost employment in Britain to take us out of this situation ?
10 And that 's if the Eastwood camp can persuade WBC mandatory number one challenger , Kevin Kelly , to stand back rather than be forced to go to New York to take him on .
11 ‘ Did you know his ma asked Francis to take him off her hands when he was seven 'cause she was too busy with the bar ? ’
12 ‘ I want to visit my old school friend Nellie Musgrove , who lives in the Via Botteghe Oscure , ’ said Daisy firmly , ‘ so I may get Edwin to take me along there .
13 A European Community fund , set up effectively to bribe boat people to go and Hanoi to take them back , has secured less than half the £80 million it needs .
14 Jack persuaded Ducrocq to take him up for his first real flight , from that moment Jack knew that speed on the ground was no longer enough .
15 Then , as efficient as ever , ‘ You 'd better have my phone number here just in case you need to tie up with me on anything , ’ she decided , and , giving her number , paused only long enough for Fabia to take it down and was then asking , ‘ Well ? ’
16 P.S. I think we left some skeletons in water , if so , tell James to take them out merely and lay them on the table to dry .
17 ‘ She has all her old friends from Vienna to take her out to dinner .
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