Example sentences of "take [noun] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice . |
| 2 | If that fails , or if the offender breaks his assurance , the Director can take proceedings against him in the Restrictive Practices Court , which has power to order that the course of conduct be abandoned . |
| 3 | Let Liberals and Conservatives take office under him without prejudice to their party allegiance- but let the leaders stand out , keeping their party machinery intact , and promise support say for a year only . |
| 4 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
| 5 | Under the cover of the two senior Hepwoods enthusiastically congratulating their nephew and Guthrie Hepwood taking Travis with him to his wine cellar to sort through some champagne , Leith 's hate vibes came out with a vengeance . |
| 6 | She was introduced to the novelist Mr Henry James , and took tea with him at his home , Lamb House , in Rye , and he thought that she was all the beautiful American girls he had written about rolled into one ! |
| 7 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 8 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |
| 9 | Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould . |
| 10 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 11 | Cynewulf , remembered for his campaigns against the Britons ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , was probably a force to be reckoned with , and it is conceivable that Ecgberht , son of Ealhmund , took refuge with him in 785 . |
| 12 | The magazine had first taken note of him in his Student whizz-kid incarnation , when Branson had appeared in a BBC documentary entitled Men of the Future . |
| 13 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the schemes have been highly successful , but I take issue with him on his assertion that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the district council and placed in the hands of the Scottish Office . |
| 15 | His last visit was to fulfil an invitation from Marco Corner to take supper with him at his house . |
| 16 | D' you know , in a way I feel as though I have to take care of him for her . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 18 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |