Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes it out on the children and myself ( not physically ) , has almost become an isolationist and is very difficult to live with . |
| 2 | The horse man used to have to go before anybody else , to feed the horses so that , and groom them , currycomb them , water them and do everything , before any of the farmers dare take them out on the fields . |
| 3 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 4 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 5 | Right right did you take her out on the evening ? |
| 6 | But if her foot 's wider , you 'll get the bigger size it 'll take it up on the length bit . |
| 7 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 8 | When the real Mac crashes and trashes your hard disc , you can take it out on the Smack-a-Mac ! |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't take it out on the child , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Sonia : So why take it out on the black people then , she 's told black people to do many things , she 's even called them monkey . |
| 11 | But do you agree that we should put diplomatic pressure that George Bush should , the Europeans should , Douglas Hurd should , and say look guys whatever you do , if it , though were prepared to recognise you as an independent state , do n't take it out on the Russians ? |
| 12 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 13 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 14 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 15 | He stopped her from going visiting in the town , and whenever Daniel Marsh was near Nahum became angry , taking it out on the poor , innocent man whose only role in life was to serve . |
| 16 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 17 | As youngsters up to London for the day , for example , we once took it in on the basis that bona fide sports followers should try everything once . |
| 18 | It shifted even more when a former missionary from Africa came in , bought a copy , took it out on the end of a pair of coal tongs , and set fire to it . |
| 19 | Teenagers Ronnie O'Sullivan and Andy Hicks took it out on the Welsh in the last 16 yesterday . |
| 20 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 21 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 22 | And if if they have children , to take them up on the wall side of the stairs because you know . |
| 23 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 24 | And as there is n't an Inquisition any more , they take it out on the horses . |
| 25 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 26 | Because all that happened to you , but you could n't use up your energy , you could n't help that child across the road , and suddenly you 've got to get rid of all that , and you take it out on the child . |
| 27 | As he quickly washed off Friday night 's mud , he made a mental note not to take it out on the machine next time he got drunk . |
| 28 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 29 | One biggish living room and a little back kitchen with no water and no sanitation and if you wanted to dispose of your water you 'd have to take it out on the roadside and chuck it down the main drain . |
| 30 | But I do n't think it 's fair to take it out on the next person . |