Example sentences of "[vb past] taken him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd taken him literally , although now she questioned whether that had been wise . |
| 2 | ‘ The night he disappeared I got a call from a woman who said she 'd taken him because he looked abandoned , ’ Arkie explained . |
| 3 | His Mum had acted like this before , all secretive , he remembered now , when they 'd taken him to choose his bike , his last birthday . |
| 4 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 5 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 6 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 7 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 8 | Unless they 'd taken him captive . |
| 9 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 10 | If it had all succeeded and we 'd taken him back … ? |
| 11 | When they emerged forty minutes later from the second-hand shop she 'd taken him to , he wore a tweed suit , laced boots , a heavy overcoat almost ankle-length , gloves and a trilby hat . |
| 12 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 13 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 14 | Secondly , Sir Angus was barely a year out of the Civil Service after a career which had taken him to the chairmanship of the Customs and Excise . |
| 15 | His work had taken him from London to the Arunta , from Boston Brahmins to Buddhist scriptures ; he too was an explorer who had left his native home . |
| 16 | They had taken him down in the lift and he had stood there looking at her face , peaceful and still . |
| 17 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 18 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 19 | He could n't help it if Mrs Wright had taken him to visit her friend who was n't there , who was dead . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's in here ? ’ said Lee , opening the door of the room that Mrs Wright had taken him into , to see the birds ' eggs . |
| 21 | Doyle watched her riffle through a wad of papers as though she had taken him by surprise , and when she held up something for Tug to see he craned sideways so that he could glimpse it too . |
| 22 | Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’ |
| 23 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 24 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |
| 25 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 26 | But his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses which obviously had known better days . |
| 27 | He did n't know where Victor and Masha were ; they had separated at Heathrow , some Amnesty guys had taken him off for a boozy lunch . |
| 28 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 29 | His first 50 had taken him 103 deliveries . |
| 30 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |