Example sentences of "[vb past] to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up . |
| 2 | Instead , Cecil King , who had pledged the TUC he would keep the paper alive till the end of the decade ( providing its obvious description as King 's cross ) , tried to take it up market and appeal to the younger voters , better off but ‘ socially radical ’ , whose support had just helped elect Harold Wilson into office . |
| 3 | When I tried to take it off I found that Lili had pinned it to my petticoat and I was trapped in it . |
| 4 | God had thus clearly transferred the realm to his brothers , whom the bishops now invited to take it up . |
| 5 | A while later , when she was finished and dressed and sitting alone , Charlie came to take her out to the taxi . |
| 6 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 7 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 8 | His eyes were open and seemed to be focusing pretty well , I just said to him , ‘ Hang on in there , Lester ’ — and he seemed to take it in . ’ |
| 9 | Lucy seemed to take it in , and to give it her consideration . |
| 10 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 11 | Whistler stuck red and green feathers into his cloth cap and then forgot to take them off . |
| 12 | Two a half crown and a sixpence and a threepenny and three pennies and sometimes he forgot to take it back but however I did n't remind him . |
| 13 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
| 14 | Boredom took the place of apprehension in Goreng 's mind ; he began to take it out on people . |
| 15 | Adam had a shirt on , the kind that buttons up , not a T-shirt , but now he began to take it off , having an idea of what might be about to happen . |
| 16 | It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up . |
| 17 | Lord knows , it was like a fever that threatened to take me over . |
| 18 | He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal . |
| 19 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 20 | He considered the boy thoughtfully , and decided to take him back quickly . |
| 21 | ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’ |
| 22 | We decided to take it on . |
| 23 | We had only really talked to Mr Postman on the regular occasions — Dusshera , Diwali , Christmas , New Year — that he came looking for tips , but were flattered by the invitation and out of curiosity decided to take it up . |
| 24 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 25 | He started to take it off again , then sighed and pulled it back over his shoulders . |
| 26 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 27 | It all depends at what stage the dealer chose to take him out . |
| 28 | And I went down , and come back up with this tray of drinks and er Mike screaming , and I still had n't seen this feller I give the other drinks out , well when I went to take his in well he was as black as two o'clock in the morning was n't he ? |
| 29 | They offered to take her down to the sea , so off they went — accompanied by the Dares ' three dogs , hideous mongrels with hearts of gold . |
| 30 | 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 . |