Example sentences of "take [pos pn] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monday will see everyone take their seats for the return journey via Amiens and thence to Calais and a very special lunch on board before the voyage home to England . |
| 2 | People can take their dogs for walks , train whippets and pigeons free of restrictions . |
| 3 | At 8.30 you 'll take your places for a three-course meal which will include Smoked salmon . |
| 4 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's my first time here , ’ she whispered as they squeezed into a table and a waiter took their orders for drinks . |
| 6 | As Ibn Fayoud 's guests took their seats for dinner , he introduced himself to Kelly with edgy formality . |
| 7 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 8 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 9 | Designer Tricia Guild took her ideas for inside the house and applied them to her garden . |
| 10 | The Highland dancers bad left , taking their swords for other employment . |
| 11 | EVERY day people passed by our house taking their dogs for a walk . |
| 12 | Kinzu , a Rhodesian Ridgeback , was the sort of dog who took his owners for a walk . |
| 13 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 14 | I climbed hesitantly , feeling clumsy as the tame macaw which that morning had taken my fingernails for a bunch of nuts . |
| 15 | He has taken my details for having no tax . |
| 16 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 17 | Take my words for it . |
| 18 | So I always take my flowers for the altar at the same time . |
| 19 | Or should they be grateful that Britain 's science machine is too poor and backward to buy a computer to take its decisions for it ? |
| 20 | Desperate parents often ask adults flying to a safe country to take their children for them . |
| 21 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |
| 22 | If people want to take their pets for walks then they must buy pack animals like dogs , for which group movement is the most natural thing on earth . |
| 23 | The white woman just looks after herself , the Black woman is there to take her kids for a walk . |
| 24 | Some amazingly well organised not to mention tight people , take their notes for this meeting on the back of the last meeting 's agenda . |
| 25 | As the audience take their seats for " Pamela " we can hear , from the onstage tannoy , stage management calls and , ultimately , an announcement : " Ladies and Gentlemen , please take your seats in the main auditorium ; this afternoon 's performance of " Coriolanus " is about to begin . " |
| 26 | Clinton on the other hand had fought for the king at Boroughbridge , and after the coup of 1327 associated himself with Lancaster : he was one of the two lords appointed by Lancaster to take his proposals for a settlement to the king in late November 1328 . |
| 27 | Take our exhausts for example . |
| 28 | ‘ And take your partners for a tango , ’ Sid announced . |
| 29 | If the New FADs ever were dead and buried , take your partners for the resurrection shufflebeat . |