Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] took [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 2 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 3 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 4 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 5 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 6 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 7 | I took the collar off , removed the stones , put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet . |
| 8 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 9 | Then she picked up the wicker bird cage and took it to the sill . |
| 10 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 11 | She put the page of the newspaper with her letter and took it to the station . |
| 12 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 13 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |