Example sentences of "took us [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 2 | The steward answered Agrippa 's insistent knocking and took us into the main hallway . |
| 3 | From Alta , which is a small fishing village , our chosen route took us over the high plateau towards Varanger Fiord . |
| 4 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 5 | The route to Abri took us across the western edge of the Nubian desert , known as the Batn el-Hagar , , the Belly of Stones . |
| 6 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 7 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 8 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 10 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 11 | And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control . |