Example sentences of "[v-ing] take me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ And I suppose you were waiting to take me there , eh ? ’ |
| 5 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 8 | Are you going to take me home , or not ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's going to take me far too long to prospect for the gold . |