Example sentences of "[noun sg] took [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 3 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 4 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 7 | And after another sleepless night , the green-eyed woman took her to the commanding officer . |
| 8 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 9 | From Alta , which is a small fishing village , our chosen route took us over the high plateau towards Varanger Fiord . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 18 | A steady rise up the legal ladder took him into the commercial law field and a range of broader experience as a member of both the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( 1966 to 1969 ) and a legal member of the mental health tribunal for 22 years until 1982 . |
| 19 | His way took him past the local police station . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hopes are high Tonight he meets Keith Knox of Bonnyrigg , whose big hitting took him to the Scottish title . |
| 22 | The elevator took her to the top floor of the highrise that housed the health club with its big swimming-pool , Jacuzzi , sauna , Turkish bath and view of Paris . |