Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He predicts that intense X-rays will destroy hazardous organic wastes without ever having to take them out of their 55 gallon drums — a much safer and cleaner operation than most clean-up techniques .
3 FOOTBALL managers have asked the FA to take them out of the firing line of the terrace hate mobs .
4 You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again .
5 If you want to take them out of the book
6 And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ?
7 And if necessary , Lizzy , I am going to take you out of here by force . ’
8 You should n't be reading until Doctor 's seen you and you need company to take you out of yourself .
9 To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’
10 The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure .
11 He thought it wrong to take him out of Cambridge so quickly .
12 It needed some spark to concentrate his mind , something to take him out of the ruck .
13 It 's unfair to him , Edouard , to take him out of his station in that way .
14 Pat 's Jester 's defeat at Haydock yesterday has led Corals to take him out of the King George betting .
15 His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice .
16 James , a £1.3million signing from Watford , looked set for a long run but his mistakes have persuaded Souness to take him out of the spotlight .
17 He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world .
18 ROS : We are counting on you to take him out of himself .
19 erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing .
20 If this is the case he will run a big race for trainer Noel Meade who was forced to take him out of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham .
21 Isambard did not mean to let him go for money , and was ensuring that the crown should not intervene to take him out of his hands perforce .
22 De Gaulle meant , as you would realise , that he wanted to take her out of earshot and have a whisper .
23 Discussing with North in September 1986 how the arms-sales creditors could be paid off , he was alarmed to hear him say ‘ Well , maybe we 'll have to take it out of the reserves . ’
24 He would n't allow for mistakes , he used to take it out of himself , his equipment — and , of course , the nearest guy at hand .
25 The impulse to take it out of the box and start taking pictures right away can be very strong , and the user-friendliness of these machines is such that it is quite possible to do just that .
26 He made a move as if to take it out of its packet .
27 Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance .
28 Finding a small Picasso drawing inscribed ‘ Pour Douglas et John ’ , Richardson begged Billy to take it out of the sale .
29 The plots , counterplots , dead bodies and other nasty goings-on are laced with a soupçon of romantic interest to take it out of the boys- only category .
30 It has no right to be there and if you will take my advice you will tell Frank Coven to take it out of that window and back to the bank as fast as he can . ’
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