Example sentences of "[noun sg] took he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 2 | He kept the man 's airway clear and blood circulating until the plane landed and an ambulance took him to hospital . |
| 3 | An ambulance took him to Leeds General Infirmary where it was found John , 72 , was suffering from a vicious flu bug . |
| 4 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 5 | A squad car took him to hospital where he died . |
| 6 | Three weeks later his last first-class innings brought him 62 for Victoria at Sydney , and then marriage took him to Adelaide , where he spent the rest of his days . |
| 7 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 8 | Lam 's biography seems tailor-made for todays ' infatuation with multiculturalism : he was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Creole mother , he was a Roman Catholic fascinated by Santeria ( Cuban animism ) , his studies and work took him to France , Spain , the United States and the Caribbean , and each of his three wives came from a different European country . |
| 9 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 10 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |
| 11 | When Reinhard Pischel was a young man , his daily journey to work took him from east to west Berlin . |
| 12 | Her toecap took him under the chin , close to the throat . |
| 13 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 14 | The trawler took him in tow and took him back to Falmouth , Cornwall , where he was arrested by police , Truro Crown Court was told . |
| 15 | They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence . |
| 16 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 17 | Charlie 's ‘ Business took him over London Bridge . ’ |
| 18 | Business took him over London Bridge , and I accompanied him . |
| 19 | The buyer exercised the option , but then did not complete the contract , so the seller took him to court . |
| 20 | His most recent move took him from Alton in Hampshire to SW regional office at Radstock . |
| 21 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 22 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 23 | If this were ever done , then unless some other constituency took him on board in time for the general election , or perhaps unless he stood and won in his constituency as some kind of independent Labour candidate with at least PLP support , then , on the declaration of the result in his constituency , he would lose any right to remain Prime Minister . |
| 24 | The taxi took him through the city and up into the countryside beyond the lake , where the Amner clinic commanded its famous views . |
| 25 | His wife took him into her body , and her eyes glittered in the half-darkness . |
| 26 | With military-style precision , one gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France where at least four others were waiting . |
| 27 | One gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France in Toulon , France , where four others were waiting . |
| 28 | A policeman took him to a chair near Anna . |
| 29 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 30 | Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive . |