Example sentences of "take he [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
| 2 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 3 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 4 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 5 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 6 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 7 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 8 | The well-to-do uncle treated John as a son and took him into his expanding business . |
| 9 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 10 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 11 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 12 | It was rumoured that Pott would not allow the bearers to take him to his own hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , believing he would fare better elsewhere . |