Example sentences of "[verb] take it [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boredom took the place of apprehension in Goreng 's mind ; he began to take it out on people . |
| 2 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was too well trained to take it out on Florence and she finished milking her , but she scowled as she lifted the heavy pails and carried them outside , lifting them into the water trough to cool . |
| 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 | She wondered whether this was going a bit far and glanced up , surreptitiously , at her mother : her wasted evening had left her in a bad mood , and she was determined to take it out on somebody . |
| 7 | So since his old fella died and he could n't take it out on him , he 's taken it out on his young missis and the young ‘ uns . ’ |
| 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 . |
| 9 | He had been incensed by the guy on the comer [ who had said ‘ Fucking bastards ’ as they drove past ] and I felt wanted to take it out on somebody . |