Example sentences of "to take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Hagan suggested it was important to try to prevent the client seeing the social worker as just one more person determined to take him/her away from home regardless of the feelings . |
| 2 | He wanted to take nothing seriously . |
| 3 | When leaving the dwarves ' lair , be quite sure to take nothing away , not even a pebble , for the dwarves will sense the theft and bring misfortune upon the offender . |
| 4 | Gifford , though he gave advice from his own experience , told him to take nothing on trust , but ‘ to cry mightily unto the Lord that He would convince him of the truth thereof ’ : he must work out his own salvation . |
| 5 | That is to take nothing away from Mitterrand 's remarkable three-hour TV performance last week when he took on — and beat — a TV interviewer , three editors , 12 members of the public and a leading anti-Maastricht politician . |
| 6 | On the one hand , the researcher should try to take nothing for granted , but rather be surprised and intrigued by what is observed , as if trying to make sense of foreign culture . |
| 7 | The food she ate made you grow too , so she was very careful to eat only good food and to take nothing that might harm her little baby . |
| 8 | Just under the surface , though , we can see signs of a willingness to take nothing on trust , to maintain a permanent self-vigilance , and if necessary to overturn the cultural idols . |
| 9 | I have no doubt that the majority of staff working in this difficult field do their job with compassion and professionalism , but this trial has shown that we can afford to take nothing for granted . |
| 10 | ‘ We have learned to take nothing for granted . |
| 11 | If the diagnosis of perforation was confirmed , the patient was given intravenous fluids and antibiotics and was advised to take nothing by mouth . |
| 12 | If you remember , I 'd had trouble enough when I was fifty convincing people to take me on and now at fifty-nine or sixty there were hardly any employment opportunities left open to me . |
| 13 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 14 | The right hand pulling on a not very positive lay-off and the left gripping a tenuous pinch , I moved up , expecting friction on the slab above to take me to a small shelf . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'll have to take me as she finds me . |
| 16 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 17 | If she was here everything would be OK and Mr Jackson would n't want to take me away . |
| 18 | But he is going to take me some day this week to some lovely woods he knows . |
| 19 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 20 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 21 | Dad used to take me out there for picnics . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't try to take me on , Quincx ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It 's covering myself , really , asking people to take me as they find me . |
| 25 | At Athlone I waited in a large modern station for another train to take me to Ballinasloe . |
| 26 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 27 | But the first time I conducted it I needed an ambulance to take me home ! |
| 28 | ‘ She 's trying to take me for everything I 've got , my friend , ‘ he said . |
| 29 | I got my mother to take me to the dentist every week so I could run away from it . ’ |
| 30 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |