Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb mod] take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jake had a small boat , with inboard engine , and he would take us all out fishing below the sheer red , ragged Berwickshire cliffs . |
| 32 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 33 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 34 | She has only to consent , to be passive , to welcome him and he will take her home , will welcome her into his kingdom and his kingdom will be her flesh . |
| 35 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 36 | When he got up to go I tried to tell him that I understood , that I would n't say anything if he would take me home , but he backed away out . |
| 37 | ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse . |
| 38 | ‘ I can show you an excellent view of the town , ’ he pressed , his smile dipping for all the world as if he would take it as a personal tragedy if she refused . |
| 39 | A man was unfurling a sail on one of the feluccas , and we ran along the bank and asked him if he would take us across the river . |
| 40 | I ask him if he 'll take me over to the Lennox 's in his car . |
| 41 | At the end of the lesson , John asked if he could take their working home . |
| 42 | If he could take her now , overpowered as she was by her emotion , and take her quickly , before she started to reason and to be afraid again , then he thought he would be able to keep her . |
| 43 | The dealer asked the proprietor of the shop if he could take it to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin-Dahlem for an opinion and authentication , and was given the picture . |
| 44 | Then when a photographer asked if he could take his picture , Penn said , ‘ Please do n't , but thank you for asking . ’ |
| 45 | Later , he would be revenged upon them all , but he would take them individually , one at a time , when they were unprepared . |
| 46 | He said Hywel could take the dogs in the van but he would take her in her pretty frock in his clean car . |
| 47 | He did n't used to come in with us but he 'd take us . |
| 48 | But he will take us there . ’ |
| 49 | A skilled Nottingham engineer 's daughter of the 1920s remembers her father ‘ would never go to see his parents unless he could take them some money … |
| 50 | Back at the house , she waited , tense , to see whether he would take his things up to another room , but he said nothing about it , only slid into his bag with a sigh that assuaged her ; it was the sigh of a child finding a safe place . |
| 51 | In his frustration and anger , he had told her that she must give herself as well before he would take them . |
| 52 | Before he could take his first step into the water he saw the fish . |
| 53 | Then , when he could take it no more , when he was on the edge of the precipice , but knew he was ready before her , he pulled back . |