Example sentences of "[noun] take [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 2 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 3 | Daddy take you for a bath ? |
| 4 | Go on , push yourself up on the handles and let the trolley take you for a ride , just like a child ! |
| 5 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 6 | One day , after a particularly good school report , Father took me for a walk past a second-hand bookstore where I often browsed enviously . |
| 7 | He chortled as Herr Nordern shuddered , and laughed again as the waitress , a stout fifty year old , brought the beer and refused his offer to take her for a sensuous holiday in Siberia . |
| 8 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 9 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 10 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
| 11 | It can presumably survive , even though it is edible to birds , because birds take it for a monarch , and avoid it . |
| 12 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 13 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 14 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 15 | Eventually I protested so Father Prior took me for a walk in the meadows and said I was to prove my worth with one final task . ’ |