Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " 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 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
4 | ‘ You are n't going to take me back to Gibraltar ? ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | So carefully dressed when he came to applaud me and , with money given by Dad , to take me out to Simpson 's . |
7 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
8 | 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 ’ ! |
9 | 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 . |
10 | It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle . |
11 | Sir James , whose birthday is February 26 , plans to lay on a ferry for 400 guests to take them over to France . |
12 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
13 | ‘ Let's tell them we are going to take them back without compensation . ’ |
14 | The BR driver regrettably had to take them back to Shrewsbury . |
15 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
16 | It worries Thailand that the bombers were carrying air tickets to take them back to Bangkok , which they had left for Manila in December . |
17 | 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 . ’ |
18 | Huge black slugs slid out of curling bracken , delighting the children who wanted to take them home for pets . |
19 | Early that evening when John and Laura boarded the train to take them home to Glasgow , Maggie was with them . |
20 | She wants to take you over to Debenhams or somewhere and go and have tea . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | and they 're willing to take you on for x you know erm it just , a lot of it is word of mouth . |
23 | Later I could arrange for a car to take you on to Luxor . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Do n't you have a boyfriend to take you out to lunch ? ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | " I want to take you out to dinner , Lollie , " he said . |
28 | Stand by Tim here after the news update at five o'clock to take you home in style . |
29 | ‘ I 've come to take you back to London , ’ Roman said . |
30 | I have come to take you back to England , if that is what you want . |