Example sentences of "take him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 2 | She would take him at his word . |
| 3 | The government should take him at his word . |
| 4 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 5 | He seemed to think she should simply take him at his word . |
| 6 | He would marry another heiress , she knew that quite well , almost certainly one who would take him for his title , regardless of his character and conduct . |
| 7 | They had both been so kind , caring and helpful during the whole of Nigel 's illness — staying with him so that I could get out to shop and have a break , taking him to his hospital appointments because their car was bigger and therefore more comfortable for him , and in dozens of other , smaller but no less important ways . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's power enough , ’ agreed Watt , taking him at his word . |
| 9 | Well we took him , took him for his injection in October |
| 10 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 11 | But , it was said , he took him to his flat and indecently assaulted him while two other men looked on . |
| 12 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 13 | I took him at his word . |
| 14 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 15 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 16 | My son took him at his word and went into travel for three years . |
| 17 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 18 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 19 | The villagers , however , took him at his word , only too willing to dump their scruffy-arsed offspring on him between the hours of ten and five . |
| 20 | He understood that the boy had had little formal education until Edouard took him under his wing . |
| 21 | For Ebbo , after five years in custody at the monastery of Fleury , Louis the Pious 's death unlocked the prison door : the abbot of Fleury brought him to Ingelheim , where Lothar took him under his wing . |
| 22 | They took him from his horse , and laid him tenderly on the ground ; Ranulf stood watch while they waited quietly for the man to die . |
| 23 | Simon 's uncle had taken him under his wing , so Simon and his wife , Mary , half lived there . |
| 24 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |
| 25 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 26 | Stumbling forward blindly , he tried to recall the route the oriental had taken him after his capture on his previous visit . |
| 27 | Of course , I 've I 've left him in the charge of of not I have n't asked Paul to take him under his wing over the weekend , but I 've left Neil a list of things that I would like done . |
| 28 | AUTOBUS ( Artificial Eye ) Overlooked Eric Rochant film about a ‘ sentimental terrorist ’ who kidnaps a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 29 | A simple tale of a teenager ( Yvan Attal , near left ) who hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl in another town , it is also a complex allegory of Love versus the Law . |
| 30 | AUTOBUS Post-New Wave whizz-kid Eric Rochant follows A World Without Pity with a trip to the French provinces , where a passionate youth quietly dying of smalltown boredom hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |