Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He wanted to take me out in his boat to see to his lobster pots , only I was too scared of the sea . |
3 | And my father used to take them out in the boat . |
4 | then I 'm gon na have to take them back in again ! |
5 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
6 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
7 | " No , we 're busy , I 'll get someone to take you up in a minute . " |
8 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
9 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
10 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
11 | We had to take her out in a chair . |
12 | The man offered to take her out in his boat one day , to show her how to catch mero . |
13 | She might let me to take her out in a minute . |
14 | Despite the fact that the Mexican government spends almost 25 per cent of its budget on education , a high proportion of the population is still relatively poor , semi-literate and ill-equipped to grasp even the fundamentals of the legal system , let alone to take it on in what would appear to be a very one-sided battle against the establishment and its administration . |
15 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
16 | But the 250 is brand new and I do n't want to take it out in the rain ! |
17 | Would you like to take us through in summary then Trev ? |