Example sentences of "[coord] took [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked with them in his study or took them for walks in the park . |
| 2 | Despite the happy family photos that appeared in the fan magazines , childhood days were miserable days for Joe who said that his dad never held him in his lap and read him stories or took him to ball games . |
| 3 | Auguste reached out his hand and took hers . |
| 4 | Luke 's mouth descended then and took hers and Robyn felt the surge of hidden desire increasing , expanding , until she ached with the pleasure of it . |
| 5 | He put down his glass and took hers from fingers which were inexplicably trembling , then twisted her round to inspect her back , ‘ You 've had your back in the sun . |
| 6 | She pulled away , but his hand followed , and took hers in an unrelenting grasp . |
| 7 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 8 | Gyorgy Aczel , the liberal-minded ideology chief , spotted the talented regional boss and took him under his wings . |
| 9 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 10 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 11 | Paul did not , or affected not to , hear her and Erika walked across the yard and took him by the elbow . |
| 12 | He settled Francis Morgan down as best he could and took him again through the events of the week before his daughter vanished . |
| 13 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
| 14 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 15 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |
| 16 | A few minutes later she hurried back and took him by the hand . |
| 17 | ‘ Because my fa — his father came and took him away to Hambury . ’ |
| 18 | She had another kid as well , you know , but his father came and took him away when he was a baby . |
| 19 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 20 | His 10,000-mile electoral odyssey , which started in Mrs Thatcher 's birthplace of Grantham and took him to more than 60 constituencies , finally brought him to Dulwich , just up the road from his predecessor 's Prime Ministerial bolthole . |
| 21 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 22 | Sure enough , someone met him and took him to the adjutant of No . |
| 23 | He arranged for Marcus to see a dentist , and took him there in a taxi . |
| 24 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 25 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 26 | On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar . |
| 27 | The well-to-do uncle treated John as a son and took him into his expanding business . |
| 28 | One day my son Krono and I were there , too busy eating to watch for trouble , and a big bird came down and took him away . ’ |
| 29 | Faced with the defenceless young man asking for mercy , the blacksmith could not kill him , so he relieved him of his sword and took him prisoner . |
| 30 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |