Example sentences of "[pers pn] to take [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's time for you to take breakfast to the labourer at the kiln ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So I 'd like you to take charge of the boy for a while . ’ |
| 3 | First , that he allowed Framework Management Ltd to go into liquidation admitting it owed £21,000 to Higgins ( who claimed he was owed £51,000 ) ; and , second , that he had caused to be issued in 1988 ‘ a press release regarding a tournament to be held in Peking stating , and telling Mr Higgins in order to induce him to take part in the tournament , that the first prize was £35,000 when in fact it was not ’ . |
| 4 | He brushed the sleepy Prior 's enquiries aside , asked him to take care of the body , promising he would meet any expense . |
| 5 | When the Magistrate duly appeared the Collector , lying feverishly on his bed , asked him to take command of the garrison for a few hours . |
| 6 | But with his mother arrested it was now up to him to take charge of the rebellion in Poitou . |
| 7 | He also found a different sort of fame through his increasing interest in photography , when Life magazine commissioned him to take pictures of the wedding of his co-star Lynn Redgrave — who played his fiancée in Black Comedy — to producer-director John Clark in April 1967 . |
| 8 | We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas . |
| 9 | Encourage regular visits to the lavatory , help the person take their mind off their depression by encouraging them to take part in the activities of the Home . |
| 10 | The work of health visitors — traditionally and profitably with mothers and children — threatens to be ‘ undermined ’ by increasing requests from general practitioners for them to take part in the home care of the very old ( ibid. : 131 ) . |
| 11 | Just on item eight and item nine , Lord Mayor , Community Health N H S Trust and Health N H S Trust , to report the fact that dispensations from the Department of the Environment have rec been received for Councillors and , enabling them to take part in the debate but er not to vote . |
| 12 | This may be beneficial if it enables them to take advantage of the participation exemption available in countries such as the Netherlands or France . |
| 13 | If colleges were experienced in validation and had developed acceptable validation procedures , the Council made Validation Procedures Agreements with them which enabled them to take responsibility for the organisation of validation for their own pilot schemes . |
| 14 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 15 | Thank you for your letter of the 20th March , inviting me to take part in the Spotlight programme on Friday 14th May . |
| 16 | And he counselled me to take note of the sea . |
| 17 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 18 | It was all very well for Dawlish to tell me to take orders from the Brain , he did n't have to obey them . |
| 19 | When we explained that the underwater housing was to enable us to take portraits of the fishes underwater , they dissolved into disbelieving laughter and ushered us into the country . |
| 20 | Secondly , it enables us to take account of the knowledge that , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said , had Saddam Hussein not allowed his greed to overcome his stealth by invading Kuwait last year , he would almost certainly have developed a nuclear weapon by the end of 1993 . |