Example sentences of "to take [pron] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Hagan suggested it was important to try to prevent the client seeing the social worker as just one more person determined to take him/her away from home regardless of the feelings . |
| 2 | ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 . |
| 3 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 4 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 5 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 6 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's tell them we are going to take them back without compensation . ’ |
| 8 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 9 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 10 | And then he said , I do n't mean to put pressure on , but I want to get to know you , we 've got so much in common and erm I want to take you out for dinner , not just go to the concert , but , we do n't get to know each other that way . |
| 11 | Do n't you have a boyfriend to take you out to lunch ? ’ |
| 12 | She said I wo n't be able to take you out to lunch till after Christmas time cos I 'll be far too busy . |
| 13 | " I want to take you out to dinner , Lollie , " he said . |
| 14 | Stand by Tim here after the news update at five o'clock to take you home in style . |
| 15 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 16 | Bypassed by modern roads , access is along narrow lanes which seem to take one back in time to a more tranquil age . |
| 17 | When I was on the motor cycles , he used to collar me to take him home for lunch . |
| 18 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 19 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 20 | Eyeing Gwen Bear , she wondered if she ought to take her down for company , then gave an enchanting little giggle . |
| 21 | The sight of Fred and Daisy after the first night added to his nerve , and he scooped the skeletal Peaseblossom out of a dressing-room full of tulle to take her out to dinner with them . |
| 22 | ‘ She has all her old friends from Vienna to take her out to dinner . |
| 23 | De Gaulle meant , as you would realise , that he wanted to take her out of earshot and have a whisper . |
| 24 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to take it away on holiday . ’ |
| 26 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 27 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
| 28 | Rule number one is , whether renting or buying , never to take anything out of desperation — you will only regret it . |
| 29 | Would you like to take us through in summary then Trev ? |
| 30 | And sometimes dad used to take us down to Serenity , to see the ships . |