Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't help it if Mrs Wright had taken him to visit her friend who was n't there , who was dead . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's in here ? ’ said Lee , opening the door of the room that Mrs Wright had taken him into , to see the birds ' eggs . |
| 3 | He had barely slept after the meeting with the Consul from the Embassy and the escort of men in the khaki uniforms of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti had taken him still drowsy from the back seat to the train at a far platform . |
| 4 | ‘ We were in the lane after Sacco left , ’ said Nooty , ‘ and it was getting really cold and Dorcas said to take him the other side of the hedge and , well , it was me who said you can see rabbits in this field sometimes , and he said find a rabbit-hole . |
| 5 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 6 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 7 | But little Harry had wept — for his beloved sister 's absence and Lily had taken him secretly to visit her . |
| 8 | ‘ I think Dobell did take him in something , later . |
| 9 | While his fellow students were still schoolboys , John was leading a raffish private life , and described how a friend from South Africa had taken him to ‘ some Queer pubs which are too fantastic and revolting to be true . |
| 10 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 11 | Owen had taken him for a Sudani because his face was black . |
| 12 | He ran back to the ferry house but Mrs Stevens refused to take him back across the river . |
| 13 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |
| 14 | It is said that his journey to America had taken him via Mexico , where he spent some time in discussion with Trotsky , on the issue of Negro involvement in the revolutionary movement . |
| 15 | He began to object to the way the treasure was being shared out , but Bartholomew failed to take him seriously . |
| 16 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |