Example sentences of "[pron] take [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do n't I take you out for a nice dinner this evening ? |
| 2 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 3 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 4 | I took him out for a walk and he went straight into a lamp post , ’ said Ray , of Clarence Chare , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 5 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 6 | She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’ |
| 7 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 8 | ‘ While you shower and change before I take you out for a meal . ’ |
| 9 | I take it in for further research . |
| 10 | " I 'm Dan Brady , and I 've served the Cause both here and at home since before you were born … so I 'd take that look off your face before I take it off for you . " |
| 11 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 12 | Each time I went to Bristol , she took me out for tea on her own , or with a girlfriend . |
| 13 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 14 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 15 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 16 | When you take him out for his first walk on the lead , it is always nicer if an older dog accompanies you . |
| 17 | You take it in for what it seems and forget , as likely as not , the precise detail . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 19 | I want you to take it in for me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 21 | We took it over for a Sunday night , hiring it , promoting the gig ourselves , pushing out a lot of handbills . |
| 22 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 23 | ‘ How about letting me take you out for a pub lunch ? |
| 24 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 25 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 26 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 27 | did they take it out for you ? |
| 28 | Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation … |
| 29 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 30 | Well what have they taken it off for then ? |