Example sentences of "he took [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took himself to the call-box in his lodgings night after night , but whether he was sloshed or sober there was no way of finding the nerve to dial . |
| 2 | He took him to a room in which was H. W. Hall , a solicitor . |
| 3 | He took him to a room behind the stage . |
| 4 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 5 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 6 | To Finlayson 's surprise , he took him by the elbow and steered him , quite gently , to the door . |
| 7 | When Gebrec approached , he took him by the arm and murmured something which Melissa took to be a mild reproof . |
| 8 | It er er he pleated the he the halter into the tail of the leading horse and he took them down the road in a string like a train . |
| 9 | Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill . |
| 10 | He took them for a stroll along the banks of the stream . |
| 11 | He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory . |
| 12 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 13 | He took them into the room where people usually waited for the trains — but now there was a carpet on the floor , and flowers above the pictures on the walls . |
| 14 | What , cast the poor remains into the Severn when he took them from the grave ? ’ |
| 15 | He took her on a tour of the city , and she enthused over the faded glories of Georgian architecture and the charm of the bridges spanning the river Liffey . |
| 16 | He took her to every room in the house and with a cool economy of speech explained the merits of the installation , pointing out its adaptability and demonstrating its efficacy . |
| 17 | He took her to a graveyard high on the slope behind the house . |
| 18 | He took her to a house in Gloucester but gave himself up after police surrounded the property . |
| 19 | He took her to a club in Camden Town , a dark cellar where a jazz quintet played hypnotic Chicago blues and where the pale faces of London 's night people were lit by candles as they drank , smoked and laughed . |
| 20 | He took her to the balustrade . |
| 21 | He took her to the exit slowly |
| 22 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 23 | He took her to the airport nurse , who could find nothing wrong with her but agreed that she might be suffering from jet lag and needed only to rest . |
| 24 | He took her to the foot of the elaborately draped four-poster and opened an iron-banded chest . |
| 25 | Afterwards he took her to the entrance of the Priors Park Estate , where he released her . |
| 26 | So he took her down the hill again . |
| 27 | One evening , he took her into a side room at the theatre to emphasize just how bad and terrible and boring he thought it all was . |
| 28 | He took her into the sitting room , which Daisy was comforted to see was absolute hell — far too much eau-de-Nil and yellow and ghastly paintings of polo matches interspersed with some excellent watercolours . |
| 29 | He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor . |
| 30 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |