Example sentences of "take him [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Er — how long would it take him to get the part ? ’ she enquired , fearing the worst .
2 So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport .
3 When Jack took him to see the house , Warnie was just as enthusiastic .
4 In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was .
5 Miss Williams took him to meet the police Land Rover at the stable gate , a bone-thin , wiry woman in her late fifties , her expression sufficiently forbidding to prevent the parents , edging cars through the gate to collect children from the ten o'clock ride , from asking any questions .
6 He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time .
7 His uncle had taken him to see the Walt Disney film when he was a child .
8 Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules .
9 ‘ No telephone calls accepted for residents — ’ I wondered how long it had taken him to break the habit of saying ‘ inmates ’ — ‘ during luncheon . ’
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