Example sentences of "[noun pl] took [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
2 | Jessica 's grandparents took her out for the day as father-of-four Mr Egerton , of Enfield , north London , recovered from Friday 's ordeal . |
3 | ‘ One of our sergeants took him out of the river about six o'clock this morning , a mile and a half downstream from here . |
4 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
5 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
6 | Otago made a brave challenge , led by Mike Brewer in his first appearance since a series of injuries took him out of the All Black tour of Australia . |