Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 7 | Burney took him over to the grey slab in the middle of the room . |
| 8 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 11 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |