Example sentences of "take him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line .
2 When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement .
3 She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously .
4 and takes him from the hospital up to Southwold .
5 If more force than is necessary is used by the policeman , that too will take him outside the scope of the duty .
6 If the stranger persisted , he might take him to the park and point at me , which in normal circumstances should be sufficient to settle the matter .
7 In later years , I 'd take him to the station and he 'd get a train home . ’
8 This rocket was , this Scott said that that would take him to the moon .
9 Yeah he 's gon na take him to the master .
10 Johnny will you take him to the toilet please .
11 Failing that , perhaps Webb 's would take him to the Castle Inn in Wood Street , if he spoke to them nicely ?
12 Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was .
13 Either Mr Putt settle his long-standing and substantial account , or the tailor would take him to the debtor 's court .
14 It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse .
15 so anyway he went right on until the Saturday and he said look , on the Friday they called us in and they said look we 're gon na take him to the ward I 'm afraid there 's nothing else we can do , just deteriorating and he said there 's no
16 On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing .
17 Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts .
18 His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so .
19 The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner .
20 I think you might have to er take him down the road afterwards when it clears up .
21 Pity she could n't take him into the nightclub , Tramp .
22 Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean .
23 The three of us would chat about anything and everything for a while then Alan would take him into the surgery so that they could be private . ’
24 And no , before either of you start making up theories , I did n't take him into the bedroom .
25 When he was ready , the wind would take him off the beach .
26 The first caller , smoking a cigarette , implored me to buy something to ‘ take him off the dole ’ .
27 We 'll take him off the scheme because he has n't replied to any of our correspondence .
28 Already Parfois seemed to lie behind them , and Harry had almost lost that tense expectation that at every step someone would reach out and take him by the shoulder to haul him back into captivity .
29 In the late evenings his mother would take him by the hand for walks , and would play the concertina to him when they got home .
30 So erm they would n't take him in the army but he , he was in the more or less he was , he was in the map making department .
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