Example sentences of "take him [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 2 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 3 | In fact I remember I took him out of school for nearly three weeks to try and |
| 4 | Ember moved with an ease that soon took him out of sight among the frost-clawed rocks and left her panting , furious with him but unable to catch up to say a single one of the angry remarks cartwheeling through her mind . |
| 5 | It was irregular because his duties took him out of touch for weeks at a time . |
| 6 | Very possibly , and a remark of Michael Carson 's explaining what it was that took him abroad in search of the other shows how the celebration may share the stereotypes of the demonized : |
| 7 | 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 . |