Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] take his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't help him ; he was weak and unsteady , but she would n't take his arm or guide him to the bed . |
| 2 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |
| 3 | But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world . |
| 4 | We ca n't take his testimony seriously . ’ |
| 5 | and then if we can afford to send him privately we can just take his name off . |
| 6 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 7 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
| 8 | ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is , ’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia . |
| 9 | It was not long , you will recall , since Ian Botham was remarking that he would not take his mother-in-law to Pakistan . |
| 10 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 11 | If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 12 | If he were to hang on , he told Stamfordham , the nation would say : ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 13 | He can then take his foot off the pedal as the revs will now stay at their preset level , rather like a cruise control in a car . |