Example sentences of "[vb past] take [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 2 | I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July . |
| 3 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 4 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 5 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 6 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 7 | A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail . |
| 8 | Only you never knew I 'd taken 'em round to Mr Bishop 's brother . ’ |
| 9 | A while later , when she was finished and dressed and sitting alone , Charlie came to take her out to the taxi . |
| 10 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 11 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 12 | I know I do I forgot to take one down to the place with me I checked the then that , now we go |
| 13 | Boredom took the place of apprehension in Goreng 's mind ; he began to take it out on people . |
| 14 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 15 | He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal . |
| 16 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 17 | ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’ |
| 18 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 19 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 20 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 21 | They offered to take her down to the sea , so off they went — accompanied by the Dares ' three dogs , hideous mongrels with hearts of gold . |
| 22 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 23 | The man offered to take her out in his boat one day , to show her how to catch mero . |
| 24 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 25 | He took us out in his boat a couple of times , and he offered to take us over to the Treshnish Isles , but the forecast was n't too good , so we never made it . |
| 26 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 27 | Yes , well he s he did take it up with me as a , er , I mean you did take it up |
| 28 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 29 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 30 | She loved her baby brother , and she quite liked taking him out in his pram — but not when she had more interesting things to do , as she had this afternoon . |