Example sentences of "took him [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets .
3 Fox arrived with an assistant and Wycliffe took him to the vandalized room .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 His first trip , in 1952 , took him to the Korean battlefront .
7 His mother once again took him to the prefectural hospital , not to the university hospital .
8 Hopes are high Tonight he meets Keith Knox of Bonnyrigg , whose big hitting took him to the Scottish title .
9 I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’
10 about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house .
11 Then he received an offer to appear in Return from the River Kwai , which took him to the steaming jungles of the Philippines .
12 Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas .
13 ‘ Brighty ’ earned the Golden Boot award for the highest scorer in Division Two in 1987–88 , in which he hit 24 goals , and his efforts in the following promotion term , in which he played in every match , took him into the select group of men who have netted over 50 League goals for our club .
14 A steady rise up the legal ladder took him into the commercial law field and a range of broader experience as a member of both the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( 1966 to 1969 ) and a legal member of the mental health tribunal for 22 years until 1982 .
15 Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders .
16 Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind .
17 Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line .
18 His way took him past the local police station .
19 Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’
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