Example sentences of "[conj] take him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the happy family photos that appeared in the fan magazines , childhood days were miserable days for Joe who said that his dad never held him in his lap and read him stories or took him to ball games . |
| 2 | A keen diver and photographer , he runs a marine consultancy part time that takes him to many of the world 's most interesting coral reefs . |
| 3 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 4 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 5 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 6 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 7 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 8 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 9 | He started in plastics , working from Coventry and Spondon , and joined Courtaulds Central Trading in the mid-1970s — a move that took him to East Germany , Yugoslavia and eventually the whole of Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 11 | I was the one that took him from her and it was n't a good scene . |
| 12 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 13 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 14 | and takes him from the hospital up to Southwold . |
| 15 | In John 6:15 , there is a curious statement , that ‘ Jesus , who could see why they were about to come and take him by force and make him king , escaped back to the hills by himself . ’ |
| 16 | Already Parfois seemed to lie behind them , and Harry had almost lost that tense expectation that at every step someone would reach out and take him by the shoulder to haul him back into captivity . |
| 17 | Means going back in the morning and taking him for a walk |
| 18 | ‘ Follow me and no harm will come to thy sheep ’ , the Emperor replied , and taking him by the hand led him into a cave in the side of the mountain . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you know this face ? ’ said Isambard , turning Harry about in his hands to display him to them all , and taking him by the chin to jerk up his face to the light when he turned it haughtily aside . |
| 20 | Gyorgy Aczel , the liberal-minded ideology chief , spotted the talented regional boss and took him under his wings . |
| 21 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
| 22 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 23 | Jekyll 's servant , Poole , let him in at once and took him through the kitchen and across the back garden to the laboratory behind the house . |
| 24 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 25 | The well-to-do uncle treated John as a son and took him into his expanding business . |
| 26 | She found him again later that night and took him into her bed . |
| 27 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 28 | When the Wilde scandal broke in 1895 , Mrs Leverson stood out against public opinion and took him into her home on his being released on bail , an act of courage and loyalty for which she has become justly renowned . |
| 29 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 30 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |