Example sentences of "[noun prp] took [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen took them up the zig-zag track . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | William took her through the whole story . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 7 | Fox arrived with an assistant and Wycliffe took him to the vandalized room . |
| 8 | The route to Abri took us across the western edge of the Nubian desert , known as the Batn el-Hagar , , the Belly of Stones . |