Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I took him first to Connor 's Quay to join a sh erm ship there . |
| 2 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 3 | I was deeply imbued with the historic and cultural spells of this monumental structure when I took my first walk round the cloisters of the inner courtyard , whose first-floor gallery , open to the sky , is beautifully panelled and wainscoted . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I took my first holiday for seven years and went to Egypt . |
| 5 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 6 | I took my first job in the City in 1936 , working for Kittel and Company at 5 Fenchurch Street . |
| 7 | In 1977 , I took my first ever sabbatical , and spent a couple of months at the Australian National University in Canberra . |
| 8 | I was just about to say something like " What 's the idea of all those tricks you play on me ? " when I took my first look at the dog and everything else fled from my mind . |
| 9 | With his support and encouragement I took my first somewhat unsteady steps towards the production of a unit in financial accounting . |
| 10 | So , I take my first right here . |
| 11 | I take it second husbands are allowed ? |
| 12 | I shall take Zoe back to Lourdes as soon as she takes her first step as I know she will . |
| 13 | I watched you progress slowly to being able to point out words letter by letter on an alphabet board so we could communicate ; I heard you gradually learn to speak again ; and I saw you take your first steps , shaky as they were . |
| 14 | When in your life did you take your first drink ? |
| 15 | ‘ We could n't believe it when she took her first step five months later , ’ Mrs Hamlet said . |
| 16 | It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water . |
| 17 | I mean I mean obviously the it may be that erm there 's very little these days I 'm afraid which is an absolutely copper bottomed guarantee you know but if if if they were able to say well you know yes we do take people who 've got the exams you know we took somebody last year or whatever . |
| 18 | but i if we take it first of all back well wh okay what was happening in that microcosm , and then the extent to which you can generalize . |
| 19 | Tony Prescott , managing director with Health Images , the company behind the development , said : ‘ The whole building is finished now and we take our first patient in on April 13 . ’ |
| 20 | We take our last of love ; then float |
| 21 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 22 | Almost without conscious will they took their first steps from the track on to the rough headland towards it . |
| 23 | The islanders were successful in their first sorties , they stole some guns , and they took their first prisoner , one Harry Butt , who seemed glad to give up without a struggle . |
| 24 | ( University of Edinburgh , Department of Molecular Biology ) Details of a scheme to help students find good PhD projects in departments other than that in which they took their first degrees . |
| 25 | They took her last baby away from her twelve years ago . |
| 26 | They took it first of all it would be in a cart drawn by a horse . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you and Cindy plan — ’ but Ruth was coming into the room with a tray , setting it down on his desk , handing one of the white bone china cups with the delicate gold rim to Cashman , watching him take his first appreciative sip . |
| 28 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 29 | But when they take their first flight into the outside world , their losses begin . |
| 30 | BOY wonder Nicholas MacMahon enters a brave new world as he takes his first tentative taps on a computer keyboard . |