Sentence examples for takes a boy from inspiring English sources

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It takes a boy on a tricycle to outsmart all the people with silly guesses as to what the old man is thinking about.

In the quiet drama A Perfect World (1993), an escaped convict (Kevin Costner) takes a boy (T.J. Lowther) hostage, and an unlikely bond forms between them.

But at the end of Horton Hears a Who, the small people of Whoville decide to make a huge roar so that everyone else could hear them: they all roar and bang and blast, but it takes a boy named Jojo (playing with his yoyo) to add his yapping voice to the roar for them to become audible.

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Mrs. Grose takes a boys-will-be-boys attitude, but Miles has been sent home from school for some unspecified "corruption".

Ang Lee, who took a boy and a tiger and spun them into Life of Pi.

It's a very different situation when you're talking about taking a boy away from his parent".

As Jun Do makes himself believe, "Only a father in that kind of pain could take a boy's shoes in winter.

"Obviously it was 'oh, there's a girl taking a boy's place, this isn't right, blah blah blah'.

Taking a boy lover was common amongst men and sexual identity wasn't polarized into hetero and homosexual.

In one case, Byars reportedly took a boy to a nearby church and fondled him "near the pulpit and under a large cross".

Tips for taking a boy shopping: be fast, nimble, and show him a boob in the dressing room to keep him from running in the other direction.

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