diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 47955b5e5cfee0..bbf46aa92920a6 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ def _ixs(self, i, axis=0):
                 label = self.index[i]
                 if isinstance(label, Index):
                     # a location index by definition
-                    result = self.take(i, axis=axis)
+                    result = self._take(i, axis=axis)
                     copy = True
                 else:
                     new_values = self._data.fast_xs(i)
@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ def _ixs(self, i, axis=0):
                 return self.loc[:, lab_slice]
             else:
                 if isinstance(label, Index):
-                    return self.take(i, axis=1)
+                    return self._take(i, axis=1, convert=True)
 
                 index_len = len(self.index)
 
@@ -2114,10 +2114,10 @@ def _getitem_array(self, key):
             # be reindexed to match DataFrame rows
             key = check_bool_indexer(self.index, key)
             indexer = key.nonzero()[0]
-            return self.take(indexer, axis=0)
+            return self._take(indexer, axis=0, convert=False)
         else:
             indexer = self.loc._convert_to_indexer(key, axis=1)
-            return self.take(indexer, axis=1)
+            return self._take(indexer, axis=1, convert=True)
 
     def _getitem_multilevel(self, key):
         loc = self.columns.get_loc(key)
@@ -3333,7 +3333,7 @@ def dropna(self, axis=0, how='any', thresh=None, subset=None,
                 check = indices == -1
                 if check.any():
                     raise KeyError(list(np.compress(check, subset)))
-                agg_obj = self.take(indices, axis=agg_axis)
+                agg_obj = self._take(indices, axis=agg_axis)
 
             count = agg_obj.count(axis=agg_axis)
 
@@ -3349,7 +3349,7 @@ def dropna(self, axis=0, how='any', thresh=None, subset=None,
                 else:
                     raise TypeError('must specify how or thresh')
 
-            result = self.take(mask.nonzero()[0], axis=axis)
+            result = self._take(mask.nonzero()[0], axis=axis, convert=False)
 
         if inplace:
             self._update_inplace(result)
@@ -3485,7 +3485,7 @@ def trans(v):
 
         new_data = self._data.take(indexer,
                                    axis=self._get_block_manager_axis(axis),
-                                   verify=False)
+                                   convert=False, verify=False)
 
         if inplace:
             return self._update_inplace(new_data)
@@ -3546,7 +3546,7 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
         baxis = self._get_block_manager_axis(axis)
         new_data = self._data.take(indexer,
                                    axis=baxis,
-                                   verify=False)
+                                   convert=False, verify=False)
 
         # reconstruct axis if needed
         new_data.axes[baxis] = new_data.axes[baxis]._sort_levels_monotonic()