Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | For when I was hungry , you gave me food ; when thirsty , you gave me drink ; when I was a stranger you took me into your home , when naked you clothed me ; when I was ill you came to my help , when in prison you visited me . ’ |
| 2 | In the first cell they took me to , which was single , there was blood everywhere . |
| 3 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 4 | I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was . |
| 5 | The lady who took me in was a widow with a son of about my age who hardly ever spoke . |
| 6 | I 'm not the fool he took me for ! ’ |
| 7 | That afternoon she took me upstairs to her small bedroom for the first time . |
| 8 | Another afternoon she took me with her to deliver the knitted garments . |
| 9 | MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare . |
| 10 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 11 | The room they took me into was walled with white tiles and bright with fluorescent lighting . |
| 12 | But the place he took me to after lunch , the Colegio Ponce de Leon , where I was supposed to have rooms , was a rather stark student hostel , and my little room was very small , with just a narrow bed , a table and a chair . |
| 13 | As I drove into the guide dog training centre at Leamington Spa it took me back to the day I arrived there to start my apprenticeship as a guide dog mobility instructor . |
| 14 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 15 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 16 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 17 | It was the day you took me to the Beatles . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Those books belong to the kind old gentleman who took me into his home . |
| 19 | Then one day they took me out again and let me free to try to fly for myself , and I knew that I must try , for much depended on it . |
| 20 | and in the middle of the night they took me out my bed and left me |
| 21 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 22 | In the morning she took me to the station , with my luggage including the cot , put me on the train , and said ‘ Goodbye . ’ |
| 23 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 24 | There was a split second of violent clattering as cannon shells hit the machine and then I was clear , and in a 270° turn which took me back across my flight path and into the safety of that wonderful cloud . |
| 25 | Somewhere there 's a man who took me fishing |
| 26 | And it was Bob who took me out . |
| 27 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 28 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 29 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
| 30 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |