Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 2 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 3 | This episode takes him across Western Turkey and the Mediterranean , on to Greece , and Rhodes ( where he meets astrologer Patric Walker ) before hitting Africa in the shape of Egypt and Luxor . |
| 4 | " I thought you 'd like to have this basket to take him home in . " |
| 5 | On this occasion , he grew bored with the idea of Algeria , and to the consternation of parliament commandeered a French warship to take him to Tunisia . |
| 6 | This failure took him spectacularly on to be director of education in another county . |
| 7 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 8 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 9 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 10 | The Home Office says he has until Tuesday evening to find another country to take him . |
| 11 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |
| 12 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 13 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 14 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 15 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 16 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 17 | I decided from that moment to take him on . |
| 18 | They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence . |
| 19 | A cold anger took him . |
| 20 | Under the expansionist management of Don Ryder ( a former financial journalist whose later success took him , inevitably it might seem , to the House of Lords ) the company diversified — into wallpaper products for example , By 1971 , Reed had outgrown its parent company , which it proceeded to take over . |
| 21 | I think he broke something because a big white van took him away and he returned with plaster on his arm . |
| 22 | ‘ And , if that was n't enough , even while I 'm realising what an idiot I 'm being to grow so infuriated that you and Lubor Ondrus appear to be in each other 's pockets , you , who have no fear whatsoever of my dog — indeed have that day taken him walking — now seem to be taking him over too ! |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , the Democrats could find no major challenger to take him on . |
| 24 | His homeward journey took him via Mainz , where he gave a concert before the elector ; Mannheim , where Figaro was being performed ; Augsburg , Munich and Linz . |
| 25 | Malik 's brilliant form took him to the top of the table for the tour with a total of 1,184 runs . |
| 26 | A steady rise up the legal ladder took him into the commercial law field and a range of broader experience as a member of both the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( 1966 to 1969 ) and a legal member of the mental health tribunal for 22 years until 1982 . |
| 27 | Patrick 's roving lifestyle takes him between rented flats in London and Los Angeles , a house he owns in Dublin and to France and Portugal where he may decide to invest some of his new-found riches . |
| 28 | Lydersen again had a hand in Arsenal 's second goal in the 46th minute when his long clearance found Campbell whose awesome power took him into the box to beat Norwich 's former Tottenham goalkeeper Walton at the near post . |
| 29 | Blind rage took him . |
| 30 | A momentary disorientation took him when he found that not only could he not move , but that he was staring straight up at the sky , and there appeared to be no ground underneath him . |