Example sentences of "took [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 32 | She did n't come , which was surprising ; she was a docile creature and particularly devoted to him because he always took her for a walk when he was at the stables . |
| 33 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 34 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 35 | No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the . |
| 36 | But you 're , you 're getting a cup of tea to be we went up through took her for a walk |
| 37 | Annie came in at seven-thirty every weekday morning , bathed and fed the child and , weather permitting , took her for an outing in the large black perambulator . |
| 38 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 39 | And , as one of my brothers said , if you took it for a walk it panted . |
| 40 | I took it for a continuation . |
| 41 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 42 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 43 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 44 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 45 | in fact , I took it for a taxi up here from there went to pit club , we had one in pit club and a game of bingo , went to Peacock we had one in Peacock and eat our sandwich . |
| 46 | so it er , it were running alright then , and er I took it for a spin I went round the block , up Robin Hood Way |
| 47 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 48 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 49 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 50 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 51 | He obviously still took us for a couple holidaying together , and his embarrassment at intruding took the form of ignoring my presence . |
| 52 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 53 | She took us for a walk with a soldier , |