Example sentences of "[noun prp] take him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tall and elegantly mustachioed , David Esterly is a softly spoken Californian in his mid-forties whose passion for Grinling Gibbons takes him by surprise even today . |
| 2 | Georgina took him in her arms and kissed him on the lips . |
| 3 | Scott took him on as scientific correspondent . |
| 4 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 5 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
| 6 | Cross took him to Stratford to see the Bard 's work , ‘ but he wanted the comfort of the BBC and the ‘ Carry Ons ’ ' . |
| 7 | Seb had two feet on the ladder when Melody took him by surprise and caught him in a hug . |
| 8 | Jake took him off me , kept him for a week , then brought him back , right as rain . |
| 9 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 10 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 11 | Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace . |
| 12 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 13 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 14 | The rivalry over Walter , and the fact that Viola took him from Hilda some time during the war or just after ? ’ |
| 15 | Sara took him in her newly-decorated classrooms upstairs with their modern office equipment — she was particularly proud of her electric typewriter — but David Fairfax was more interested in the photographs of her grandfather , driving his tandems and four-in-hands , on the landing walls . |
| 16 | Yet his journey from the beautiful south to Corry took him through scenery which is today lovely . |
| 17 | Trent took him from the rear . |
| 18 | But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow . |
| 19 | Sister Cooney took him by the arm and he went with her , unresisting . |
| 20 | This is what Charlie looked like when Monica and Roger King took him into their home in Milton Keynes . |
| 21 | He understood that the boy had had little formal education until Edouard took him under his wing . |
| 22 | Edouard took him on a tour of the stables ; he showed him the tack-room ; he introduced him to the horses , and gave the little boy lumps of sugar to give them . |
| 23 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 24 | It 's alleged that later in the day the defendants abducted James Bolger took him to a railway embankment and murdered him . |
| 25 | After a night racked with pain , Bill 's wife Violet took him to their local hospital where horrified doctors treated his multiple injuries . |
| 26 | On Wednesday , his four-goal blast against Apollon Limassol took him past Roger Hunt 's club record of 17 European goals . |
| 27 | He had half an hour before Ruane took him to dinner . |
| 28 | Britain took him for granted . |
| 29 | Tommy took him by the arm and led him to the chair . |
| 30 | Last summer Hutton scored a record 1561 runs in the North Yorks & South Durham League , as well as 700 in cup matches , and when Durham took him on their tour of Zimbabwe last February he made 143 against their national ‘ B ’ side in Harare . |