Example sentences of "take a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Mckee takes a trip to the seaside . |
| 2 | Baloo the bear takes a shine to his mancub friend Mowgli in The Jungle Book . |
| 3 | In the video ‘ Perfect X ’ K Dieroff balances precariously between ideals of beauty and self-mutilation as she takes a knife to her nose accompanied by a barrage of adjectives distilled from women 's magazines . |
| 4 | The King takes a disliking to the cheshire cat but expects the cat to show respect towards him . |
| 5 | Once inside the auction room , it 's just a matter of crossing your fingers and hoping somebody takes a fancy to it , too . |
| 6 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 7 | ‘ Just in case somebody takes a fancy to it . ’ |
| 8 | At that point , I 'm thinking this is going to turn into a junior Tootsie — you know , it takes a man to be a real feminist . |
| 9 | Oh yes they are they 're nice presents and erm she said she is is sort of in charge of his suits and he can only wear a suit she takes a suit to the cleaners every three weeks . |
| 10 | He 'd probably take a belt to the poor boy . ’ |
| 11 | You can take a newt to water , but you ca n't make him swim . |
| 12 | Maybe , I 'll take a trip to Granada or that shimmering village of Mojacar on the hill . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell you what though , mate , ’ and he was overtaken by another surge of enthusiasm , ‘ if you 're interested , what you could do is take a trip to Explorers Inn in the Tambopata Reserve , see the rainforest there … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I meant we should take a trip to Hadrian 's wall . ’ |
| 15 | Can I take a message to your late wife , eh ? ’ |
| 16 | If the Commission decides that the Regulation does not apply , it must take a decision to that effect ( which is capable of challenge ) . |
| 17 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 18 | I shall take a taxi to the aerodrome . ’ |
| 19 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 20 | And she warned that not all viewers will take a shine to their taste for booze , cocaine and bed-hopping . |
| 21 | Hamish would take a shine to the duffle-coat . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll take a cab to the station , ’ Vicky said . |
| 23 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 24 | Mind you , when I was skivvying for that Brixton fam'ly , the head of the fam'ly did n't 'alf take a fancy to me . ’ |
| 25 | She was not going to dig up ancient grievances or remind Gloria of days gone by , when she used to come into the Watermen with half a dozen different gentlemen-friends in tow or , which was even worse , unaccompanied and on the look-out for a lonely man who might take a fancy to her . |
| 26 | Most reputable dealers will take a computer to pieces for you . |
| 27 | You can take a toddler to a summer show to see the cows , dogs , cats , rabbits , sheep , goats , horses and a funfair and he 's only interested in the red and white police cones marking out the car park . |
| 28 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 29 | It 'll take a while to be ready for use with everything they do to it these days , and if she does need it , the sooner it can be ready , the better . |
| 30 | It 's a very playable game with some teasing puzzles that could take a while to sus out . |