Example sentences of "taking [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 2 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 3 | Not just taking me for a ride ? ’ |
| 4 | Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . |
| 5 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
| 6 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 7 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 8 | Here 's me taking you for a prancing little parson when all the while the cloth is a covering for a frustrated sex maniac . ’ |
| 9 | We 're taking you for a check-up at the Royal Infirmary . ’ |
| 10 | Matters relating to your home life and financial security are highlighted and , while you can anticipate some minor gains , benefits or other incentives early this month , sparks may fly just prior to the 16th , when someone appears to be taking you for a fool or expecting you to foot the bill . |
| 11 | She said summat about taking him for a picnic . |
| 12 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 13 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 14 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 15 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 16 | Means going back in the morning and taking him for a walk |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Here the dog will have the benefit of family companionship , but it is best to advise the person concerned not to let your pet off the leash when taking it for a walk outside . |
| 20 | Been taking it for a week or so now ! |
| 21 | He was , understandably , taking us for a couple whose holiday idyll he had interrupted , though why we should be sitting by the fire at that hour , with me in a not very elegant dressing-gown and Ewen in stained jeans and a guernsey it would be hard to imagine . |