Example sentences of "he took it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 2 | He took it on the chin . |
| 3 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 4 | Then he took it with a brief word of thanks . |
| 5 | He took it with a courteous ‘ Thank you very much ’ . |
| 6 | Flustered , she handed him her case and he took it with a strong hand , his face hard . |
| 7 | He took it to the shop counter , then told the sales assistant that he had changed his mind and wanted lager . |
| 8 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 9 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 10 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 11 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 12 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 13 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 14 | He took it as a personal insult . |
| 15 | He took it as a personal reproach . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should be flattered or otherwise , ’ her host drawled , and she decided on the spot that she hated men with sophisticated wit — was he saying that he took it as a compliment , or not , that he only got one mention at lunchtime ? |
| 17 | He took it as the closing of the incident . |
| 18 | She blew smoke out , coughed , and handed him the cigarette and he took it without a word . |
| 19 | There was one of her dandling a baby , and he took it into the kitchen to her . |
| 20 | He took it into the box where the keeper came out & spread well , but Wallace knocked it over him into the right side of the net . |
| 21 | And he took it from a man . |
| 22 | ‘ He took it from the gene labs . |
| 23 | He took it from the packing case , staring , thunderstruck . |
| 24 | He took it from the forceps and examined it carefully . |
| 25 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 26 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |
| 27 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 28 | He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop . |
| 29 | He took it like a man , which is better than I would have taken it . |
| 30 | And he took it like a hero . ’ |