31.   I wanted to take the ride.

32.   In compiling my defense of the car phone, I decided to take another ride, this time on the Internet, where statistics abound.

33.   It was enough, it seems, for them to take a ride down the road of history-in-the-making.

34.   Just take the ride.

35.   Many mature travelers who rode with me headed right back to get in line to take the ride again.

36.   Mayor Willie Brown took a ride on the bus and discovered there are double-parkers in San Francisco.

37.   My young Aunt Ida and a friend took the ride with me.

38.   Need any other reason to take a ride with Cage?

39.   Not that I usually take rides from strange men, but I trusted myself on this one.

40.   Not all the advice was bad and even some executives who were made queasy by the Internet roller coaster say that it was better to have taken the ride.