Example sentences of "take [pron] home [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | — Amadou does n't take her home to show to Amadé . |
2 | He carefully put me in his pocket and took me home to show to his wife . |
3 | Today , only the altar candlesticks had been forgotten ( it was Elaine Dodswell and Trish Pardoe 's week and they could at least be relied upon ) so Anna gathered them up and took them home to polish . |
4 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
5 | This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die . |
6 | It was never a serious relationship , really — I never took him home to meet my parents or anything like that . |
7 | In those days Garth was a merchant banker , and she took him home to meet her parents , who thought he was wonderful . |
8 | She then took him home to find Matthew in tears at the gate . |
9 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
10 | A BOY of three picked up a terrorist car bomb in the street — and innocently took it home to show his mum and grandma . |
11 | She was sure his parents had thought she was precisely that , when he had first taken her home to meet them . |
12 | Tony , of Maidstone , Kent , said : ‘ The doctors advised us to take him home to die , we would n't take that . ’ |
13 | Pickerage said Frome was going to teach him to play squash , and then take him home to introduce him to his parents . |
14 | Take him home to meet my parents ? ’ she replied with a look of mock horror . |