Example sentences of "and [pers pn] took [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 2 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 3 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 4 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 5 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 6 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 7 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 8 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 9 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 10 | One of the Ness men was acting as guide and he took us to a rock bothy which the men use during their stay . |
| 11 | She blew smoke out , coughed , and handed him the cigarette and he took it without a word . |
| 12 | Flustered , she handed him her case and he took it with a strong hand , his face hard . |
| 13 | And he took it like a hero . ’ |
| 14 | And he took it from a man . |
| 15 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |