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Example sentences for "take anything"

  • The women and some others were left crying, because they thought that the strangers were not going to take anything, but would bless them as Cabeza de Vaca and Dorantes had done when they passed through here.

  • The women and some others were left crying, because they thought that the strangers were not going to take anything, but would bless them as Cabeza de Vaca and Dorantes had done when they passed through here.

  • So far as regards the store, I have never been obliged to take anything from it.

  • We are just under the same sort of obligation to take them from his shop as we are to take anything, because we generally cannot get them anywhere else.

  • He was told to take anything he wanted out of the store.

  • Then St. Peter went away again by the window, and Brother Lustig was rejoiced to find that all had passed off so well, but was very much vexed to think that after all he was not to take anything for it.

  • I whispered to her not to take anything, and she understood me.

  • You are mistaken; I was not obliged to take anything of the sort for granted; I have been cheated in this sort many times before.

  • But if I do so, I won't take anything for it.

  • Now I started to take anything I could lay my hands on.

  • Remember this--all sailors are thieves, aboard ship, if the chance to take anything good to eat or drink comes their way.

  • I wouldn't take anything I couldn't pay for," said Susan.

  • He had urged her to drink wine or beer, but she refused to take anything but a glass of milk; and he ended by taking milk himself.

  • Look here now, just suppose I go away and don't take anything [with an air of triumph].

  • Imagine that I go away, refusing to take anything in spite of your protests.

  • Have I not forbidden you to take anything, and yet you have your knapsack filled with gold?

  • The saint would not, however, take anything, and the more the couple pressed him the more firmly he declined.

  • But she still declined to take anything more, although he tempted her with all his treasures.

  • But Crosbie was not in a humour to take anything quietly.

  • There are some men who will take anything easily," said George, who, since his own marriage, had learned to have a holy horror of such wicked things.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take anything" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    longer afraid; take advantage; take cognizance; take fire; take food; take from; take good; take him; take his; take hold; take long; take much; take offense; take one; take part; take passage; take pity; take station; take your; taken back; taken for; taken notice; taken seriously; takes possession; takes the; thee will