Example sentences of "[vb -s] to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad says there are really good routes worth doing that are only V.Diff and that 's all he ever wants to take me up , but I just do n't want to know . |
| 2 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 3 | By the way , Ian rang and wants to take me out tonight . |
| 4 | She just come to tell me that she really wants to take him out . |
| 5 | Yes and if that bloody Karen comes on the scene and wants to take him back I shall tell her , if you go back Paul |
| 6 | But the money gets nicked , so the one who 's married , she goes and robs erm a store and then , they , the policeman pulls them over and wants to take them in so they lock him in his boot . |
| 7 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 8 | But now the bus company wants to take it over . |
| 9 | She wants to take you over to Debenhams or somewhere and go and have tea . |
| 10 | Her Uncle Tom is delighted and arranges to take her out for a slap up meal . |
| 11 | Watching Randy play , the spirit of Hendrix certainly seems to take him over . |
| 12 | the high ceilings sort of seems to take it off with |
| 13 | And it would be a brave council official who tries to take it down . |
| 14 | ‘ Then wo n't she want to see me before she agrees to take me on ? ’ |
| 15 | When he is n't at work he likes to take us out to visit our nanny . |
| 16 | When , in the opening scene , McKendrick tries to initiate a new topic , by referring to the " fictions problem " ( p. 46 ) , Anderson fails to take it up because he fails to realise that McKendrick is referring to the paper which Anderson himself is going to give . |
| 17 | However as soon as the ticket office is approached the experience begins to take you back into the past . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it points to a flaw in the aesthetic defence of literary education , and one which implicitly encourages culturalist claims to take it over . |