Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 2 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 3 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 4 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 5 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |
| 6 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
| 7 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 9 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 10 | And if if they have children , to take them up on the wall side of the stairs because you know . |
| 11 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |
| 12 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 13 | And er he , he could use the er h his vestry or another room at the , the church but somebody calling in the evening , he 's not going to take them over to a a cold room for an interview . |
| 14 | And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ? |
| 15 | FOOTBALL managers have asked the FA to take them out of the firing line of the terrace hate mobs . |
| 16 | You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again . |
| 17 | If you want to take them out of the book |
| 18 | And my father used to take them out in the boat . |
| 19 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 20 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 21 | I had to take them back to the shop , and try another chemist . |
| 22 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
| 23 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 24 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 25 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 26 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 27 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 28 | " No , we 're busy , I 'll get someone to take you up in a minute . " |
| 29 | ‘ Mrs Richards , if you wo n't let me call an ambulance , I 'll have to take you through to the sick bay here , and nurse you myself . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going to take you round to the studio , Midge . |