Example sentences of "[adv] took [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice .
2 As youngsters up to London for the day , for example , we once took it in on the basis that bona fide sports followers should try everything once .
3 Tom kept more erratic hours and the nature of his job often took him out of the office .
4 He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there .
5 I helped to milk the cows and then took them out to the field .
6 They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor .
7 It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 .
8 The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived .
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