Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] take him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I should really take him into that
2 He seemed to think she should simply take him at his word .
3 I might just take him on it !
4 It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse .
5 She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … .
6 One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ .
7 Pity she could n't take him into the nightclub , Tramp .
8 And maybe she 'd even take him with her .
9 Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean .
10 ‘ I shall not take him to Court .
11 So erm they would n't take him in the army but he , he was in the more or less he was , he was in the map making department .
12 I mean , I 've had an offer from who said I 'll come in any Saturday but I ca n't take him off Dick cos Dick needs him there .
13 I do n't want him shaken to death , and we ca n't take him off these things .
14 Only we ca n't take him on Thursday cos we 're busy on Thursday .
15 I tell Mr Jackson that , but he says I ca n't take him with me cos they do n't let us keep pets at Combe Court .
16 We ca n't take him with us ! ’ said Masklin .
17 You got ta take , you ca n't take him with you .
18 ‘ You ca n't take him to my place , ’ Dave Tanner said abruptly .
19 On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing .
20 They wo n't take him till next summer .
21 The Storys leave for Rome at the end of this month and can not take him with them .
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