Example sentences of "took me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the second evening of my visit he took me to a literary party given by the Chicago Tribune in honour of Carl Sandberg in the sumptuous lounge of a club called ‘ The 333 ’ ( at 333 Michigan Boulevard ) .
2 We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal .
3 One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children .
4 They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me .
5 ‘ As I was saying , I went round and Daddy took me to a French restaurant he knew . ’
6 He took me to a waiting Jaguar equipped with air conditioning , stereo system , and a very pretty girl : ‘ at my disposal for the rest of my stay ’ .
7 They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks .
8 My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 He and took me on a short sight-seeing trip to the Qutab Minar .
12 FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest .
13 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 .
14 The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house .
15 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 .
16 This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road , Combe House , the track past Tofts , and back to my home for tea and crumpets .
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