Example sentences of "take him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes him less than 30 seconds to assemble an asbestos mat , a bunsen burner , a wire mat on the top of a tripod and a beaker full of water Full of bright blue supersaturated copper-sulphate solution . |
| 2 | It takes him less than five seconds to reach me . |
| 3 | If he went round by either the footbridge or the traffic bridge it would take him longer since the wherry lay about half-way between the two . |
| 4 | Dodds is Scotland 's second leading scorer behind Ally McCoist and Roker manager Malcolm Crosby said : ‘ I 'm very interested and would take him tomorrow if I could . |
| 5 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 6 | I can see it You know so I 'll take him home but I promised him er Jaffa Cake when we get home |
| 7 | ‘ He said if it was his own son he would take him home and make him comfortable , ’ said Mrs McGettigan . |
| 8 | Charlie still looked upset , but Sister removed him before I could take him aside and soothe him . |
| 9 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 11 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 12 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 13 | Not only had he managed to manipulate her into going with him to Conway House but also into picking him up from his home and taking him there as well ! |
| 14 | Erm Rob and Polly 's mum 's picking Simon up and taking him home and erm , Annette 's picking up most nights Gary 's gon na be home just after four so it 's actually someone to take them home . |
| 15 | Pumfrey took him upstairs and , after consultation with Toby , they put him to bed in Toby 's room , and locked the door . |
| 16 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 17 | They took him outside and up into the mountains . |
| 18 | I sat him up , took him outside and injected him with some dangerously powerful drugs . |
| 19 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 20 | She had another kid as well , you know , but his father came and took him away when he was a baby . |
| 21 | I think he broke something because a big white van took him away and he returned with plaster on his arm . |
| 22 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 23 | I never took him again because as we went in the big dog bounded from his mistress ' side and produced a particularly sonorous blast as if in greeting . |
| 24 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 25 | Athelstan took him aside and stared into the bleary-eyed face . |
| 26 | During 1919 he painted a mother and child which took him more than forty sittings , perhaps because the subject was of such personal interest . |
| 27 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 28 | Given a choice , you would have taken him rather than Timothy Hutton for a solicitor . |
| 29 | An aide had apparently taken him aside and told him to do something fast about his image . |
| 30 | We tolerated his hilarious English mispronunciations of the Scottish hills that had taken him less than three hours , keeping in mind the thought of that comfortable car seat at the bottom of this rough heather slope every time we felt like killing him . |