Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] took [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His final campaign photo-opportunity took him to the North-West and the Accrington Brick and Tile Company . |
| 2 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 3 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
| 4 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 5 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 6 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 7 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 8 | The trip home took them over the Bay of Biscay , and they descended ‘ on the deck ’ as planned , flying no more than 100 feet above the water . |
| 9 | At the end of our golden period in the 1930s a 2–0 victory over Ditchford Colliery took us past the Preliminary Preliminary First Qualifying Round , although we faltered in the following Preliminary First Qualifying Round , losing 6–2 to Bonsford Hartley of the South FC . |
| 10 | But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world . |