Example sentences of "take i [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That takes me up to Easter . |
| 2 | He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea . |
| 3 | Progress over the next two months or so should take me back to climbing . |
| 4 | As a matter of fact , he 's taking me out to dinner tomorrow . ’ |
| 5 | I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’ |
| 6 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’ |
| 11 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 13 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 14 | Eruptions of demand for really cheap transport take me back to student days , when a lack of wheels was a disaster . |
| 15 | ‘ Take me out to lunch when you get back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 18 | 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 ’ ! |