Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
2 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
3 | His confinement was not over-rigorous , as ‘ the worthy jailer Smith ’ took him out for a walk while he was there ; and by 30th August he was back at home in Ambleside , having found Anne and the children as well as he could expect . |
4 | The brave tot , who has been battling leukaemia since he was six weeks old , was bouncing with life yesterday as mum Michelle took him out for a treat . |
5 | But at the same time I realise it means they 're basically trying to control my music which I did n't expect ’ As for taking him seriously , American composer Philip Glass offered to do a 12-inch remix of Hey Music Lover after Moore took him out for a night in the clubs . |
6 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
7 | I took him out for a walk and he went straight into a lamp post , ’ said Ray , of Clarence Chare , Newton Aycliffe . |
8 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
9 | Jessica 's grandparents took her out for the day as father-of-four Mr Egerton , of Enfield , north London , recovered from Friday 's ordeal . |
10 | We took it over for a Sunday night , hiring it , promoting the gig ourselves , pushing out a lot of handbills . |
11 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
12 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |
13 | It was the weekend I bought the Granada , I 'm sure it was when we went away first time I ever took it out for a run . |
14 | We 've spent months of shelving and then in the end he just says oh sod it , just took it out for an eight one six then . |