Example sentences of "[pers pn] take it for [art] " in BNC.

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1 I took it for a continuation .
2 Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second .
3 in fact , I took it for a taxi up here from there went to pit club , we had one in pit club and a game of bingo , went to Peacock we had one in Peacock and eat our sandwich .
4 so it er , it were running alright then , and er I took it for a spin I went round the block , up Robin Hood Way
5 Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive
6 Right I 'm convinced such a good breed and you very kindly rigged this Topper up for me so well you wo n't mind if I take it for a spin will you ?
7 And , as one of my brothers said , if you took it for a walk it panted .
8 We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it .
9 It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ .
10 Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year .
11 He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap .
12 There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it .
13 She said well he took it for the glass .
14 Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion .
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