"Como vou tirar as crianças do museu?"

Translation: How am I going to get the children out of the museum?

[Codymack]

"How am I going to take the children from the museum" should be accepted, I think? In certain contexts I think this would be the more natural translation. "How am I going to get the children out of the museum" almost seems like they're being held there against their will...

[Danmoller]

Or they are running around causing a huge mess, and you just can't get them.

[emeyr]

There are over 250 uses of "get" in English. (I have a friend who authored that book). "Get" is exactly what most Americans would say. We wouldn't say "take".

[dcamarilho]

TAKE!

[liriko77]

expelled ?

[KTKee-EnglishEng]

Is remove an acceptable translation of tirar in most cases (like this one)?

[emeyr]

That sounds like something that a newspaper would write with reference to crowd control: "The police removed the demonstrators from the building."

[Danmoller]

In many cases, yes.
I'm afraid saying most is too much....

Try these:

• ele tirou água da rocha (he took water out of the stone - it sounds a little odd to say he removed water from the stone).

• ela tirou uma arma da bolsa (she took a gun from her purse - to say remove sounds a definitive thing).

[KTKee-EnglishEng]

Whereas in English it sounds a lot odder to say he took water out of the stone than to say he removed water from the stone. I assume it means he dried it.

[Danmoller]

It's like extracting water.

[KTKee-EnglishEng]

Is that a saying, like getting blood from a stone?

[Danmoller]

Something like that, not a saying in Portuguese....
Like Moses in the Bible