Example sentences of "took [prep] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 2 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 3 | He took with him a full train of siege artillery with sappers and engineers . |
| 4 | Carefully Dalziel reached into his inside pocket and took from it a large envelope . |
| 5 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |