Example sentences of "to take [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewed by the Irish Independent , she said : ‘ Any man would be mad to take me on with all these children . |
| 2 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 3 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 4 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 5 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 6 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You are n't going to take me back to Gibraltar ? ’ |
| 8 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |
| 9 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So carefully dressed when he came to applaud me and , with money given by Dad , to take me out to Simpson 's . |
| 12 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 13 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 14 | Why you 're going to take me out to er Easy Runner are n't you ? |
| 15 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 16 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 18 | But Miss used to take me out into here , to the teachers cloak room and and er er plait my hair up again and s say to me , I 'll take it out before you go away Isa , because there was It was n't a clean place in Kirkwall . |
| 19 | He wanted to take me out in his boat to see to his lobster pots , only I was too scared of the sea . |
| 20 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 21 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 22 | He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang . |
| 23 | And if if they have children , to take them up on the wall side of the stairs because you know . |
| 24 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 25 | It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle . |
| 26 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |
| 27 | Sir James , whose birthday is February 26 , plans to lay on a ferry for 400 guests to take them over to France . |
| 28 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 29 | And er he , he could use the er h his vestry or another room at the , the church but somebody calling in the evening , he 's not going to take them over to a a cold room for an interview . |
| 30 | The obvious alternative is to take them along to your local ‘ paper igloo ’ ( a blue bin like a postbox , usually alongside bottle banks ) for recycling . |