Example sentences of "[Wh det] took us [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland .
2 This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state .
3 Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections .
4 And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control .
5 However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us .
6 The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting .
7 After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge .
8 A typical example of this was a patrol we carried out in Valiant that summer , which took us from Newlyn to Swansea , a passage of some ten hours .
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