Example sentences of "he [vb past] take [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she would do if he tried to take her to bed . |
| 2 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 3 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 4 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 5 | He 'd taken her to dinner at The Black Dog and through him she 'd spent Christmas at Laura 's . |
| 6 | Like that time he 'd taken her to Dublin , one blustery day in February of 1821 . |
| 7 | He 'd taken her to a pub — The Crumpled Horn — before walking to the park . |
| 8 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 9 | On being granted leave , he decided to take us to India and visit his brother , Lord Chelmsford , the Viceroy . |
| 10 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 11 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 12 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 13 | Once he had taken me to Brighton for the day . |
| 14 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 15 | Then last night he had taken her to St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 16 | He had taken her to a modest hotel in Albemarle Street , and booked in there as Mr and Mrs Arkwright . |
| 17 | Soon after he met Marigold he had taken her to the opera to see Die Walküre and afterwards had said without forethought : |
| 18 | He had taken her to Boston 's leading department store . |
| 19 | He had taken her to most of the local beauty spots ; arranged for cannon to be fired over the lake for their echoes and the quaint museum to be selectively open when they visited the place . |
| 20 | He had taken her to Daudet 's again . |
| 21 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |
| 22 | He had taken her to lunch at La Noblesse where they had eaten cod in a watercress sauce and drunk between them a bottle of Chinon , Clos de l'Echo ‘ 86 . |
| 23 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 24 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 25 | He had taken it to the President , and he had liked it , and he had signed it . |
| 26 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 27 | He wanted to take me to a disco but I said no . |
| 28 | He wanted to take me to the dance , you see . |
| 29 | He had left her in no doubt that he wanted to take her to bed . |
| 30 | Nothing he could have said could have terrified her more ; it meant he wanted to take her to bed as well as take her self-respect and her father 's company . |