Example sentences of "i took [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took everything I could get when I was young and I do n't regret it . |
| 2 | I took their advice , but I must have had an inclination towards food to have ended up as I have . |
| 3 | Every act I took which would have been impossible in my own age served to disperse the sheet-anchors that held my personality . |
| 4 | I took him in and watched as he studied it . |
| 5 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 6 | I took him into my garden . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 8 | I took him at his word . |
| 9 | Before I took him as a patient , I watched many of his fight films . |
| 10 | I took him to a nearby café . |
| 11 | he had six sisters an' a brither an' he wouldna stay wi' any o'them , cause he wanted to stay wi'me , so I took him in . |
| 12 | For a moment , I took him for a vagrant , but then I saw he was just some local fellow enjoying the fresh air and summer sunshine , and saw no reason not to comply . |
| 13 | Later , I took him riding through the woods . |
| 14 | I took him up to Toftingall , attached a long rope to his collar , waded out , placed him afloat and then hauled him ashore , head first . |
| 15 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 16 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 17 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 18 | I took him round to Cheapside and booked him for being drunk and disorderly . |
| 19 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
| 20 | I took him to the ‘ Tally 's ’ ( ice-cream shop ) at the corner of our street and Bedford Street — and bought him a large cone . |
| 21 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 22 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 23 | I took him to the Savoy Hotel . |
| 24 | I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem . |
| 25 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 26 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 27 | ‘ I took him on myself . |
| 28 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 29 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 30 | One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’ |