Example sentences of "he took [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 2 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 3 | He took her down to the bathroom , and turned on the geyser for her . |
| 4 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 5 | And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed . |
| 6 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 7 | He took me back to the past and showed me the future . |
| 8 | He took me back to the house and the other one was inside . |
| 9 | He took me back to the house and the other one was inside . |
| 10 | I put the matter in the hands of a local lawyer , and he took it up with the magistrates . |
| 11 | Then he took it out to the back and burnt every bit of paper in his Dad 's incinerator . |
| 12 | When the punch had cooled he took it out to the garden shed , within easy reach of Tibbles who , since her dose of chicken thallium , seemed to have improved in every conceivable way , and went upstairs to the bedroom . |
| 13 | There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock . |
| 14 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 15 | As it was still under guarantee , he took it back to the shop and a month later was told it had been repaired . |