Example sentences of "he take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea .
2 But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing .
3 How dared he take her up to heaven and then drop her — just like that ?
4 On September 22nd , 1870 , Flaubert bought himself a revolver ; at Croisset , he drilled his ragged collection of men in expectation of a Prussian advance ; he took them out on night patrols ; he told them to shoot him if he tried to run away .
5 ‘ We must assume he took her completely by surprise . ’
6 ‘ Fact of the matter is , ’ her father told Artemis when he took her aside before lunch on Boxing Day , ‘ you 're to have a new mother .
7 He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings .
8 When his sister Miemie ( who had married a carpenter , Hermanus Dempers ) was widowed , he took her in as companion for his wife and housekeeper to the family .
9 He took her in to dinner .
10 ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus .
11 and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ?
12 ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’
13 He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand .
14 Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics
15 And he took it out in cash . ’
16 I mean , he took you out to dinner one night .
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