Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 2 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 3 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 4 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 5 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 6 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 7 | He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there . |
| 8 | And furious farmers were powerless to do anything about the handsome profits their former land fetched for the Department of the Environment , who took it over in the mid-1960s . |
| 9 | I put the matter in the hands of a local lawyer , and he took it up with the magistrates . |
| 10 | Later , in 1965 , Elvis Presley remembered the ditty and took it back up the charts . |
| 11 | The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived . |
| 12 | I gritted my teeth and picked the warm remnant up , took it back to the Grounds and flung it into them from the top of the bank . |
| 13 | ‘ We pulled the donkey up : we took it out of the shafts , and took the shafts through the top of a five-bar gate . |
| 14 | So , who , you took it out of the bushes . |
| 15 | Yes , I took it out of the bushes get . |
| 16 | Sixteen of us flew into Delhi — and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains . |