Example sentences of "taken out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always brought his reviews into offices personally and sometimes got taken out to lunch . |
| 2 | When I get ‘ taken out to lunch ’ I 'm in a state of shock for a week . |
| 3 | Peter Morgan remembers being taken out to lunch at the Trocadero and visiting Cadby Hall , the headquarters of J. Lyons . |
| 4 | I had been taken out to lunch by Wakefield 's grandparents one Sunday . |
| 5 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 6 | One night in late July I was taken out to supper by Ian Gow , the Prime Minister 's Parliamentary Private Secretary . |
| 7 | A subscription was taken out to Repertoire international de la presse musicale , a substantial new series of indexes to 19th-century European music journals . |
| 8 | After all , the last time such a state of affairs had existed , it had at least given her the bonus of being taken out to dinner by him . |
| 9 | It found that on average , women expect to be taken out to dinner ten times before they 'll have sex with a man . ’ |
| 10 | I was taken out to dinner on the day of my arrival , and yesterday there was a ‘ coquetel ’ ( cocktail party ) after the inaugural ceremony , which contained a lot of unintelligible speeches in Portuguese . |