Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | And if if they have children , to take them up on the wall side of the stairs because you know . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | As he quickly washed off Friday night 's mud , he made a mental note not to take it out on the machine next time he got drunk . |
5 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
6 | One biggish living room and a little back kitchen with no water and no sanitation and if you wanted to dispose of your water you 'd have to take it out on the roadside and chuck it down the main drain . |
7 | But I do n't think it 's fair to take it out on the next person . |
8 | Just cos you 've messed up your practical your your personal life it do n't mean you have to take it out on the rest of us . |