Example sentences of "take [pers pn] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea .
2 ‘ Could I take you out to lunch ? ’
3 ‘ All right , I 'll take you out to lunch one day . ’
4 Laugh , Kate , and I 'll take you out to supper at this amusing little noodle shop I 've discovered in Chinatown .
5 ‘ You 're sure you wo n't let me take you out to dinner ?
6 " Let me take you out to dinner , " he said , " and we 'll forget about that unpleasant experience .
7 Will you let me take you out to dinner tomorrow in gratitude for what you 've done ? ’
8 A suggestion that he should take her out to lunch , instead , did n't , surprisingly , fall flat .
9 Occasionally he 'll take her out to lunch .
10 Molly had the same feeling of doom she remembered when her father wrote to say he 'd be coming down to see her at school and would take her out to tea , so she could meet a ‘ new friend ’ .
11 Roland half wished that she was , that a merchant banker would take her out to dinner , or a shady solicitor to the Playboy Club .
12 Three days after the accident she agreed to let Nick take her out to dinner .
13 If Alice were not otherwise occupied , he would take her out to dinner somewhere .
14 ‘ Why do n't we take her out to dinner ? ’ said Lili .
15 ‘ Ca n't we take it out to sea ? ’
16 As a matter of fact , he 's taking me out to dinner tomorrow . ’
17 ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus .
18 and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ?
19 He brought me flowers , took me out to dinner and the theatre , and was generally attentive to me , as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman .
20 ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’
21 They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it .
22 I 'm taking you out to dinner . ’
23 I mean , he took you out to dinner one night .
24 ‘ It 's sweet really , he 's taking her out to ram-raid a flower shop ’
25 Nevertheless , she was both surprised and touched when , with an obvious effort , he said that he would be in London at the weekend and wondered if he might have the pleasure of taking her out to lunch .
26 She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon .
27 I 'm taking her out to dinner to cheer her up . ’
28 The person who was most patient with him was Alison , who let him read his poems to her and sometimes took him out to lunch .
29 Fred was jumpy while they were working together the next morning , so Arthur opened a bottle of Bollinger in their businesslike new office and then took him out to lunch .
30 The next time I went to Los Angeles , I called him and we took him out to dinner .
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