Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 5 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 11 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 14 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 15 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 16 | While the aircraft was unloaded the crew was spirited away by car through the back roads of the airport by a civilian with a machine-gun , who took them to the old Sheraton Hotel and offered them cakes and coffee . |
| 17 | Stephen took them up the zig-zag track . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace . |
| 20 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 21 | Fox arrived with an assistant and Wycliffe took him to the vandalized room . |
| 22 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 23 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 24 | His first trip , in 1952 , took him to the Korean battlefront . |
| 25 | His mother once again took him to the prefectural hospital , not to the university hospital . |
| 26 | Hopes are high Tonight he meets Keith Knox of Bonnyrigg , whose big hitting took him to the Scottish title . |
| 27 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 28 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 29 | Then he received an offer to appear in Return from the River Kwai , which took him to the steaming jungles of the Philippines . |
| 30 | Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas . |