Example sentences of "take her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 2 | Sandy takes her for walks , not the other way round . |
| 3 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 4 | He vowed that when they returned in the summer he would take her for a holiday . |
| 5 | What did they take her for ? |
| 6 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I 'll take her for a few minutes . |
| 7 | To look at her now ye would take her for fifty-two . |
| 8 | Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon . |
| 9 | ‘ Laura must be nearing forty — her daughter , Hilda , is sixteen — but you 'd take her for no more than thirty-five . |
| 10 | He assumed an expression of profound gravity before saying the most pressing question was where he should take her for supper . |
| 11 | " If the lad takes her then he must take her for passion and hope it stays hot : " |
| 12 | Did he take her for a fool ? |
| 13 | With a figure like that one would hardly take her for a chips and stodge consumer . |
| 14 | Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either . |
| 15 | Shall we take her for a walk ? |
| 16 | So as I can take her for a ride and back . |
| 17 | I 've got ta take her for another injection . |
| 18 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 19 | John was taking her for granted , so were the children . |
| 20 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 21 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 22 | She felt that the ‘ on — off ’ nature of their relationship — when he was here today but not tomorrow , or even the next day — was all part of Nicky 's habit of taking her for granted . |
| 23 | I could have pointed out that there was never any chance of me taking her for granted , because the minute I stopped thinking about her she sobbed until I noticed her again . |
| 24 | He was a strange man , still lonely in spite of taking her for his wife , and kept his own counsel , never discussing his thoughts with her , keeping his troubles deep , and always ensuring that she had whatever she needed . |
| 25 | " Since you do not want the maiden , I am taking her for myself , gracious princess ! " he called . |
| 26 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 27 | She did n't come , which was surprising ; she was a docile creature and particularly devoted to him because he always took her for a walk when he was at the stables . |
| 28 | Vortigern was so taken by her charms that he took her for his wife . |
| 29 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 30 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |