Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed . |
| 2 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 3 | ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out . |
| 4 | My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | you know when they were two days old , Trevor took me through to the hospital |
| 6 | When Ted took me out into the sea , we had fifty fish |
| 7 | ‘ That night , they took me out into the desert and beat me . |
| 8 | They took me out , took me out of the bed and just dropped me ! |
| 9 | A sloop took me out to the ship which dipped and rose wildly in the harbour . |
| 10 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 12 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 13 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 14 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 15 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 16 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 17 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 18 | As I drove into the guide dog training centre at Leamington Spa it took me back to the day I arrived there to start my apprenticeship as a guide dog mobility instructor . |
| 19 | He took me back to the past and showed me the future . |
| 20 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 21 | He took me back to the house and the other one was inside . |
| 22 | He took me back to the house and the other one was inside . |
| 23 | Finally a soldier arrived and took me back to the Star Room . |
| 24 | Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it . |
| 25 | mother took me back by the hair |
| 26 | Juliet made a hot drink for them both , and took them through to the sitting-room . |
| 27 | England got the all-important shot that took them through to the final which they lost 19-8 to Ireland . |
| 28 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 29 | X-rays were taken there and then and resisting the temptation to open the package , I took them back to the consulting room . |
| 30 | ‘ They took them back to the barracks in the Bazaar . |