Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second evening of my visit he took me to a literary party given by the Chicago Tribune in honour of Carl Sandberg in the sumptuous lounge of a club called ‘ The 333 ’ ( at 333 Michigan Boulevard ) . |
| 2 | We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal . |
| 3 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 4 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 5 | ‘ As I was saying , I went round and Daddy took me to a French restaurant he knew . ’ |
| 6 | He took me to a waiting Jaguar equipped with air conditioning , stereo system , and a very pretty girl : ‘ at my disposal for the rest of my stay ’ . |
| 7 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 8 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 9 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 10 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 11 | He and took me on a short sight-seeing trip to the Qutab Minar . |
| 12 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 13 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 14 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 15 | It would have been boorish not to return to the Jardin de Paris for lunch , a short walk which took me along the right bank of the Duna to the famous Széchenyi Bridge and Clark Adam tér . |
| 16 | This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road , Combe House , the track past Tofts , and back to my home for tea and crumpets . |
| 17 | The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war . |
| 18 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 19 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 20 | In some cases groups of villagers rented them , in others local landowners and in others again merchants , who took them on a speculative basis ( 209 , p.282 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 23 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 24 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 25 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 27 | The whole family dreaded going to court , so Theresa took them to an empty courtroom , showed them where everyone sat and explained what would happen . |
| 28 | Stephen took them up the zig-zag track . |
| 29 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 30 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |