Example sentences of "took it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Coffin , on his way to work , stopped at the delicatessen to buy one of their warm ham rolls , then took it into Cat 's Coffee Shop to eat with a cup of the best Kenya . |
| 2 | That point may seem obvious but I do n't think whoever worked out the amounts given in state benefits ever took it into account . |
| 3 | This statement was quoted with apparent approval by Lord Edmund-Davies in Hay v Hughes [ 1975 ] QB 790 and Watkins J took it into account in Regan v Williamson [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 305 . |
| 4 | Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ? |
| 5 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 6 | There 's supposed to be a back fire-escape , but years ago , before I came here , someone unhooked it and took it for scrap . |
| 7 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 8 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 9 | Benjamin James Titford may or may not have made his fair share of mistakes as a young teacher ; but when the chance came of running his own show in a conducive environment , he took it with alacrity . |
| 10 | Hess , however , took it with equanimity , and laughed at Edward 's own unease . |
| 11 | The star himself took it with dignity . |
| 12 | In 1794 and 1795 she organized concert performances of La clemenza di Tito in Vienna ( in the 1795 performance Beethoven played the D minor Piano Concerto , K.466 , between the acts ) ; and then took it on tour through Germany , with great success . |
| 13 | He thought she had shown moderate suicidal intent in taking the overdose , particularly because she took it at night when unlikely to be discovered and repeated the act on waking in the morning . |
| 14 | Bournemouth chairman Norman Hayward said : ‘ When Harry told us he was finished with football , we took it at face value . ’ |
| 15 | The rhetoric of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere still talked of Japanese altruism , but few took it at face value . |
| 16 | I did n't dress it up ; no wonder she took it as life letting her down once more . |
| 17 | Another brother , Brian , 27 , added : ‘ She took it as part and parcel of the job . |
| 18 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 19 | Intrigued by Sydney Newman 's two-page memo Donald Wilson first took it to BBC staff writer C. E. ‘ Bunny ’ Webber , whose job it became to flesh out the synopsis into something suitable for a Script-Editor to work from . |
| 20 | Ray Butts made the first one for his own guitar player , then he took it to Nashville and showed it to Chet Atkins and Chet bought one . |
| 21 | I even took it to school with me . |
| 22 | I took it to work one day |
| 23 | I took it to Sister . |
| 24 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 25 | McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point . |
| 26 | In the beginning Lee took it to heart , and at one time threatened to walk off the course . |
| 27 | She accepted his warning without comment , but she took it to heart . |
| 28 | When she started publishing her work , animal behaviour research was dominated by theorists who contended more or less literally that to find out how a creature worked , you took it to bits . |
| 29 | I took it to Fred Workman , and he liked it too . |
| 30 | I took it to Sir Henry Knight and we tried to trace its origin back through the telegraph service . |