Example sentences of "[verb] take me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 2 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 3 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 4 | ‘ My job as an engineer has taken me all over the world , ’ says Bob , who lives in Kirkdale and now works for GEC . |
| 5 | Camping has taken me all over England and twice to Scotland . |
| 6 | Silas has taken me there twice . ’ |
| 7 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 8 | Indeed , it has taken me more than three years to cast off my British cynicism and truly comprehend the value of freedom in America . |
| 9 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , my dear , ’ she said to Cobalt , ‘ you promised to take me home . |
| 11 | ‘ D' you remember , ’ Cal said , ‘ when I was new at school when you were too , three years ago , they 'd taken me away from St Catherine 's and I never told you why . |
| 12 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 13 | He was still laughing and saying ‘ To a Haggis ’ when the guard came to take me downstairs and lock me up . |
| 14 | It was n't a date or anything — he just came to take me there . |
| 15 | Very few people seemed to take me seriously . |
| 16 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |
| 17 | A few months ago , Snodin also produced Tony Marchant 's acute and bruising Take Me Home , the best drama serial of the year , in which another Yuppie ( he does n't like them , does he ? ) , this time in a new town , lost his wife and lifestyle to a mini-cab driver . |
| 18 | Outside the last bar the cab was waiting remorselessly , the driver with his face averted , waiting to take me somewhere I did n't want to go . |
| 19 | ‘ And I suppose you were waiting to take me there , eh ? ’ |
| 20 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 21 | They sent him home from school or something , send him straight home from school and er , do n't know I suppose take him to hospital today and then , I assume they 've got to bring him home and he said oh no he said you have n't got to take me home he said cos the boy 's got to be from school , come round tomorrow and pick you up |
| 22 | ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 . |
| 23 | Lili looked at her squarely , and for a moment I entertained a mad hope that she would deny this , would announce that my engagement was a travesty and a cruelty , would say that she was going to take me away and teach me how to dress or to dance . |
| 24 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 25 | Are you going to take me home , or not ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's going to take me far too long to prospect for the gold . |
| 27 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 28 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 29 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 30 | He must have taken me there . |