Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] 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 'm not the fool he took me for ! ’ |
| 5 | That afternoon she took me upstairs to her small bedroom for the first time . |
| 6 | Another afternoon she took me with her to deliver the knitted garments . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The room they took me into was walled with white tiles and bright with fluorescent lighting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It was the day you took me to the Beatles . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and in the middle of the night they took me out my bed and left me |
| 16 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 17 | In the morning she took me to the station , with my luggage including the cot , put me on the train , and said ‘ Goodbye . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 23 | C. She took me in . |
| 24 | We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal . |
| 25 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 26 | That time you took me there ‘ t was all sunshine and light , but come Christmas , my Gawd . ’ |
| 27 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 28 | ‘ I have to go , Deveraugh ; it 's time you took me home . ’ |
| 29 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 30 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |