Example sentences of "took [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 2 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 3 | They took me out with the wounded . |
| 4 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 5 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 6 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 7 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 8 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 9 | So Tom took them along past the new Pump House , the old Turkeycock School and down Main Street to the ancient Sand Gate . |
| 10 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 11 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
| 12 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 13 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 14 | Needing an outlet for her gathering frustration , she collected the bulbs she had bought in Norwich earlier in the week and took them out into the little garden . |
| 15 | Burney took him over to the grey slab in the middle of the room . |
| 16 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 17 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Otago made a brave challenge , led by Mike Brewer in his first appearance since a series of injuries took him out of the All Black tour of Australia . |
| 20 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 21 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 22 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 23 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |
| 24 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 25 | They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters . |
| 26 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |
| 27 | Teenagers Ronnie O'Sullivan and Andy Hicks took it out on the Welsh in the last 16 yesterday . |
| 28 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |
| 29 | Sophie finished draining the abscess and injected a liquid antibiotic into the cavity , then she handed the rabbit over to Helen , who took it out to the small boy in the waiting-room . |
| 30 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |