Example sentences of "take with [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 2 | Those are just some of the memories I will take with me from this year 's Ryder Cup to join those I have of my previous three captaincies and I wish the next Ryder Cup Captain as much joy and success as I 've been lucky enough to experience . |
| 3 | What equipment should we take with us on our expedition ? |
| 4 | You should take with you to the Bank your birth certificates and I suggest that you take some photocopies so that the Bank can forward these to the insurance company with your proposal form so that your ages can be admitted without further delay . |
| 5 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 6 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 7 | From 1931 , threats to his leadership disappeared , Moreover , because the Conservatives took with them into the National coalition elements of the Liberal and Labour parties , the party competition of the 1930s became seriously unbalanced , the left being too shattered and divided to offer effective opposition . |
| 8 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 9 | It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986 . |
| 10 | We went by excursion train to Weymouth ; I took with me from my parents twopence to spend ; on the journey the vicar distributed small sums calculated on services and practices attended . |
| 11 | He explains : ‘ This is because Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen . ’ |
| 12 | GEORGE HERRINGSHAW/ASP Bryan Gunn : ‘ Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen ’ |
| 13 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 14 | All he took with him on his voyage was a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a 1992 sports diary with a map of the world , the court heard . |
| 15 | The young girl was called Anne-Sophie Mutter , whom Karajan took with him to Oxford for his special thank-you concert in the Sheldonian Theatre and whose career has developed formidably since 1977 . |
| 16 | Yet he took with him to Beirut his old suitcase of deeds and taxes , proof that the Abu Khadras owned their land in Palestine . |
| 17 | Architect of the drive towards ‘ People 's Television ’ , Sydney Newman took with him to the BBC his observations on the experiment , which he summed up by saying , ‘ Children of today , who make up part of our vast audience , are well informed and are capable of some pretty sophisticated judgements . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's the case Maurice took with him to New York , ’ said Ursula . |
| 19 | In 1977 , he bought passage from the USSR by ‘ donating ’ to the Tretyakov all the paintings from the collections that they wanted ; the remaining ones he took with him to Greece and retirement . |
| 20 | He took with him to England Theodore 's son Alamayahu , who was sent to Rugby School and then to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst , where he fell ill and died , aged nineteen . |
| 21 | Cuthbertson became noted for his glass-plate frictional electrical machines ; a technology which he took with him from London but which he developed to a high state of perfection in Holland . |
| 22 | Satisfied with the merest hint of make-up she had used on her heart-shaped face , she emptied out the small jewellery sachet she always took with her on her travels . |
| 23 | Unlike the infant boys of previous minorities , an infant girl would be a pawn in the marriage market — the traditional female role — but one who took with her to her husband not just a dowry , but a kingdom . |
| 24 | And that inside the locker was a case , the case your wife took with her to London today ; a case which she told me — told me and Sergeant Lewis — contained some curtains . |
| 25 | This she took with her in the trap when she left to go to the market . |
| 26 | Having talked to the person making the eighteenth birthday cake about our individual requirements , we chose some suitable flowers to fit a small silver vase that was placed on top of the cake , and once the guests had gone I hurried them into the presses I had taken with me to the party . |
| 27 | After the Ascension of Christ , Luke , whom Paul had taken with him as an expert in the way ( teaching ) , wrote under his own name and according to his own understanding . |
| 28 | A collection of early aviation postcards failed to find a buyer , but as compensation early space flight memorabilia such as the Union Flag carried by Al Warden and taken with him on Apollo 15 around the moon sold for an impressive £1,600 . |
| 29 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |
| 30 | It would be taken with them at any age and would contain : |