Example sentences of "he take [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 So the laibon 's son from up there , up the valley past Lengai , he is a descendant of Mbatian , the great laibon , he tries to persuade Turnbull to let him take out his animal from the ones which have been selected . ‘
2 You even have a picture of him taken on his return .
3 She sat on the floor and watched him take away her shoes and his shoes .
4 His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance .
5 The florist had removed his big green apron but the Brigadier had to force him to take off his trilby as he brought him in the door , muttering under his breath , ‘ This is a State office , you know very well … ’
6 ‘ Have you asked him to take off his coat ? ’
7 The King often visited me , and every time he came , I asked him to take off my chains .
8 He takes over her life and even her education , continues to sleep with other women and tells the poor girl they ca n't be seen together in public .
9 ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here .
10 He takes over his job at the telecommunications regulator on 1 April .
11 Murray , who will be closing his own commercial operations when he takes up his new appointment at the beginning of July , faces the daunting challenge of restoring the Fruitmarket 's critical fortunes .
12 He takes up his new post on Monday 24th May .
13 He takes off his workaday specs to prove it : smooth as a baby .
14 The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic .
15 ( He takes off his hat , raises his eyes to look where it was , smooths down his smooth egg of a head , places hat on table and resumes pacing . )
16 He takes out his hunter 's knife , and stabs her three times .
17 Caught four fish I think it 's West Clandon or somewhere it 's in Surrey it 's where his Dad 's got he takes out his annual
18 and then he took badly you know one night , she had place in uproar , cos choose whatever you do
19 Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin .
20 In 1826 he took over his deceased brother 's drapery business in Bedford at a time when there was a serious run on the banks and many small traders were struggling to survive .
21 When he took over his father 's stables in 1968 he became the fourth generation of the family to train at Newmarket but he broke tradition when he moved to North Yorkshire in 1970 .
22 Gundobad 's importance was further enhanced when Ricimer died , for he took over his mentor 's position at court .
23 Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions .
24 He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues .
25 He took away what breath I still had .
26 He took both her hands and gazed lovingly .
27 When at last they broke apart , he took both her hands in his and kissed each of her palms .
28 Making an effort she could see quite clearly , he took both her hands in his .
29 He took both her unresisting hands in his .
30 She came to him hesitantly , and he took both her hands in his .
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