Example sentences of "who took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 2 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 3 | Dustin introduced Livings to his business manager , the London boxing promoter Jarvis Astaire , ‘ who took me into his offices , ’ recalled Livings , ‘ and en passant introduced me to a chap standing at a window ledge in a corridor , typing : ‘ This is one of our writers ’ , says he . |
| 4 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 5 | MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare . |
| 6 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 7 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 8 | And it was Bob who took me out . |
| 9 | The officer who took me back , she 's a right bitch . |
| 10 | ‘ Those books belong to the kind old gentleman who took me into his home . |
| 11 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember who took me inside . |
| 13 | I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was . |
| 14 | The lady who took me in was a widow with a son of about my age who hardly ever spoke . |
| 15 | I mean , the guys who took me down were real incompetents . |
| 16 | Somewhere there 's a man who took me fishing |
| 17 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 18 | I was met by two organizers of the institute , and , who took me by car to Campinas which is not far away . |