Example sentences of "[adv] took [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 2 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 3 | The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists . |
| 4 | When he learnt that Bobby played the trumpet , he promptly took him to Stravinsky 's Petrushka and shared with him his passion for Sibelius and Bach as well as his fanatical admiration for Fats Waller , Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway . |
| 5 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 6 | Sarge — his real name was Paul Sargeant — was an Australian who had modelled himself on John Belushi and disapproved of good language ( he once took me to task for using the word ‘ carouse ’ ) . |
| 7 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , Sunley is now on to his sixth manager , after starting his career at Middlesbrough under Bruce Rioch , who also took him to Millwall . |
| 9 | to Mrs affidavit S K R four and I also took you to their limities in relation to that . |
| 10 | An American controller on duty when we requested permission to land later took us to a hotel at 10 pm . |
| 11 | On this point , however , he did not follow her , for he clearly took her to be complaining of the endemic tediousness of all lectures , rather than of the inadequacy of this particular lot : he equally clearly did not wholly concede the point , for he said , faintly , falsely , without enthusiasm , " Oh yes , I suppose they were . |
| 12 | Elizabeth 's travels now took her to Corsica , and she almost hesitated to tell me that she found Calvi more beautiful than Greece . |
| 13 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 14 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 15 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 16 | Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six . |
| 17 | I even took it to school with me . |
| 18 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 19 | A deliberate change of direction then took her to Granada Television in Manchester as a programme researcher . |
| 20 | Towsie ( nickname for one of the foreign miners ) came and sat down beside me while the smoke cleared a bit , and then took me to the trench , which was full of red embers , roasting the rock as when you roast eggs in the ashes . |
| 21 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 22 | The girl , thin-faced and undernourished , watched with complete indifference as Jessica then took them to the parapet and scattered them onto the turbulent black surface of the river , where they swirled beautifully , made changing patterns as they swept between the steep stone walls . |
| 23 | I was the only one who could be charged with dereliction of duty , I Judged who I thought was the best : I selected them and then took them to my station — Warboys — where they were trained as Pathfinders . |
| 24 | Born in 1948 , his career in the Soprintendenze began in Genoa and then took him to Rome where he was Director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini for three years . |
| 25 | His mother once again took him to the prefectural hospital , not to the university hospital . |
| 26 | He quietly took them to the back of the house before they left . |
| 27 | ‘ You never took her to that hole , Vic ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now Johnny 's dying , and I never took him to Disneyland . ’ |
| 29 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 30 | Don Bower , the inventor and manufacturer of this material , recently took me to his test slope near Whitstable in Kent . |