Example sentences of "[noun] took [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 2 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 3 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 4 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 5 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 6 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 7 | Stephen took them up the zig-zag track . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 10 | And after another sleepless night , the green-eyed woman took her to the commanding officer . |
| 11 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 12 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 13 | William took her through the whole story . |
| 14 | From Alta , which is a small fishing village , our chosen route took us over the high plateau towards Varanger Fiord . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 16 | Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas . |
| 17 | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind . |
| 18 | The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war . |
| 19 | After two or three days of exploring Stanley and its environs it was time to go to ‘ camp ’ ( from a Spanish word ‘ campos ’ meaning countryside ) and our tour of the islands took us to the three or four places equipped to deal with small parties of visitors . |
| 20 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 21 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 22 | These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida . |
| 23 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 24 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 25 | Two cherry berets took me through the first gate . |
| 26 | Fox arrived with an assistant and Wycliffe took him to the vandalized room . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 29 | The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 30 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |