Example sentences of "[vb past] to take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 2 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 3 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 4 | De Gaulle meant , as you would realise , that he wanted to take her out of earshot and have a whisper . |
| 5 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |