Example sentences of "take him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 2 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 3 | Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |
| 6 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She takes him to a tailor ( hence the gorgeous green suit and bowler hat ) , hires a tutor and even buys him a car . |
| 9 | His mother takes him to Farendon twice a week for tutoring in English and Roman history which he is keen on . |
| 10 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 11 | A keen diver and photographer , he runs a marine consultancy part time that takes him to many of the world 's most interesting coral reefs . |
| 12 | The play takes him to New York , where he does some more drifting , before returning to London , older but still young , wiser but still carefree . |
| 13 | It takes him to tenth place in the Ryder Cup table and the farming philanthropists will also get their reward . |
| 14 | Sybillin 's learning curve takes him to Leicester on Monday week , but hopes of running at Kempton Park on Boxing Day look unlikely to be realised . |
| 15 | He takes him to a football training course , because he does n't like to think that he goes to play football on the park . |
| 16 | ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess . |
| 17 | " When I go on holiday Con always takes him for a week or two and he has never mentioned any … anything unusual … in that way . " |
| 18 | Francis always takes him for a walk last thing before going to bed . |
| 19 | Charlie , is on his last legs , has been for years and , might as well have him put down , as that Nick keep saying , I think I 'll have to have him put down he , when he takes him for a walk he collapses . |
| 20 | Or , like he , if the little girl 's riding him , he always goes with her then as well , but even if the girl 's not on him , he takes him for a walk like a big dog so I mean , they 're lovely people , you could n't wish to have him with nicer people , erm , you know they are , they really are nice |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He reads a newspaper to him every day , takes him on trains and buses and to the shops . |
| 25 | down the right flank , teasing the defender with , takes him on on the outside , pulls the cross back but he under-headed , it 's still Frank , with a cross , over 's head , still inside the danger area shoots and it 's saved by . |
| 26 | Tall and elegantly mustachioed , David Esterly is a softly spoken Californian in his mid-forties whose passion for Grinling Gibbons takes him by surprise even today . |
| 27 | If not , the nurse takes him in a wheelchair . |
| 28 | and takes him from the hospital up to Southwold . |
| 29 | If more force than is necessary is used by the policeman , that too will take him outside the scope of the duty . |
| 30 | Rose did not take him at his word . |