Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 2 | The right hand pulling on a not very positive lay-off and the left gripping a tenuous pinch , I moved up , expecting friction on the slab above to take me to a small shelf . |
| 3 | At Athlone I waited in a large modern station for another train to take me to Ballinasloe . |
| 4 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 5 | I got my mother to take me to the dentist every week so I could run away from it . ’ |
| 6 | He wanted to take me to a disco but I said no . |
| 7 | I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings . |
| 8 | Eventually I interrupted the diatribe to point out that I was paying him to take me to the newspaper , not for his opinions about it . |
| 9 | On one occasion when the poor chap was a few minutes late , it was , ‘ He 's only ever on time when he wants to take me to church . ’ |
| 10 | Every evening at 6.30 , my ‘ Pop ’ , as I called him , would come across the garden to take me to bed and read me a story . |
| 11 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 12 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
| 13 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 14 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 15 | Have a car ready to take me to the city limits . |
| 16 | ‘ You want to take me to Plenty ? ’ |
| 17 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 18 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 19 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |
| 20 | ‘ And why would you want to take me to this auction ? |
| 21 | ‘ To take me to Eretz ! he shouted to the empty fields round about . |
| 22 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 23 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Fagan 's waiting to take me to the station . " |
| 26 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 27 | I have a private helicopter to take me to and fro . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Are you sure you want to take me to — ? ’ |
| 29 | My dad used to take me to the baths every Tuesday night . |
| 30 | You — do n't have to take me to Monpazier . ’ |