Example sentences of "[adj] took he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not , however , the chauvinist some took him to be , and he introduced the British public to a number of foreign artists , including Leger , Klee and Chagall . |
| 2 | Richard 's one recorded campaign in Aquitaine in 1181 took him to Gascony . |
| 3 | Darcy , who also began three under , did not play consistently enough and his 76 took him to a one-over-par 145 — but McLean had the worst fortune . |
| 4 | That took him by surprise . |
| 5 | John 's route first took him along the south coast of England during a heatwave then around the south west peninsula and Wales to Holyhead where he crossed to Dublin in November . |
| 6 | When I first took him to toddler group I must admit to feeling slightly uncomfortable about being ( usually ) the only man around . |
| 7 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 8 | Winning the French Open took him through the door , down the passage , into the street and out into the sunshine Fame . |
| 9 | A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) . |
| 10 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |
| 11 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |