Example sentences of "[that] he [vb mod] take [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was decided that he would take me in as an apprentice to old Bill ( Mr Carswell ) .
2 He said to her , Dr Wyn said to Elizabeth , that he would take her to the Fair .
3 To Sarah he wrote that he would take her to Italy some day when the sun was shining .
4 She thought that he would take them ?
5 He decided , however , that he would take it himself so he flew to Heathrow and with great ceremony , in the presence of AIB staff , the recording was finally read-out .
6 I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to .
7 I imagine that he would take it when he had a vehicle later on he would
8 Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him .
9 A suggestion that he should take her out to lunch , instead , did n't , surprisingly , fall flat .
10 The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further .
11 Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you !
12 But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell .
13 She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away .
14 For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was .
15 I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues .
16 And if I administer right and justice here God will let me enjoy it , but if I do evil , and demean myself proudly and wrongfully , I know that he will take it away .
17 He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a compliment when I say that , from the days when I was a student , he has been an inspiration to me .
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