Example sentences of "and took [pron] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 2 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |
| 3 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 5 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 6 | Juliet made a hot drink for them both , and took them through to the sitting-room . |
| 7 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |
| 8 | JoJo stood up and took them out to the kitchen . |
| 9 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 10 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 11 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 12 | As soon as I saw this , I dialled 999 and took her out to the studio in the stables where I live . |
| 13 | Finally a soldier arrived and took me back to the Star Room . |
| 14 | Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day . |
| 15 | She entered the kitchen and took herself over to the knife rack above the Aga . |
| 16 | When he returned to the cottage he extinguished all but one of the candles and took it through to the bedroom . |
| 17 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 18 | Then he filled his cheap vacuum flask and took it back to the car where it completed a meal of dry crusty bread and cheese . |
| 19 | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla . |
| 20 | Anyway , we desecrated the British flag — sewed on a pink triangle and painted on slogans — and took it along to the demo , which was very well attended . |
| 21 | There she chose a textbook on medical diseases and took it along to the lounge in the nurses ' residence . |
| 22 | The next day , Bobbie put Peter 's engine in a box and took it down to the railway . |
| 23 | Maxie made himself some coffee and took it out to the patio , where he surveyed the work to be done . |
| 24 | I lifted the small body , almost feather light , wrapped it in the sheet which had been spread on the rug and took it out to the car . |
| 25 | There the story remained until December 1988 when six members of the Fenland Aircraft Preservation Society ( FAPS ) organised a field reconnaissance and met with a local farmer who remembered the crash and took us along to the field . |