Example sentences of "took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took me by the wrist , and held me hard , |
| 2 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 3 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 4 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 5 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 6 | After some tricky aid above the pegs , a section of typically marvellous free climbing , on pockets and depressions with target features reasonably near at hand , took me to the edge of the abyss — a blank wall with a piece of tat weaving , taunting , 40 feet above . |
| 7 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 8 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 9 | Five air-monitoring plants had been installed ( he took me to see them ) . |
| 10 | Last week SNM guerrillas took me into Somalia from Djibouti , a crossing made on foot by night , dodging police and army patrols . |
| 11 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 12 | No. 4 Commando positions were being heavily mortared when I arrived , and Jock , my friend of many years ago , took me off to find some shelter in a dug-out , giving at least some protection from the flying shrapnel . |
| 13 | It took me years to finally comprehend . |
| 14 | I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel . |
| 15 | When I was six my grandparents took me to see a film which I was told to observe closely because I would learn lessons about good behaviour and deportment from one of the juvenile characters . |
| 16 | They took me to West End Central and , instead of telling them what had really happened , I gave them a story . |
| 17 | He took me to a pie and mash shop on Hammersmith Broadway . |
| 18 | It took me about three hours to get six stops . |
| 19 | And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed . |
| 20 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 21 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 22 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 23 | I took me a while to cotton on . |
| 24 | It took me time to find out what was wrong but eventually I sorted it out . |
| 25 | It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely . |
| 26 | My eldest brother , who is quite ‘ westernised ’ , took me to college . |
| 27 | Another was hopeful of joining Ford — he took me to task for this magazine 's criticisms of the new Escort . |
| 28 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
| 29 | I know cos he took me out in it sometimes . |
| 30 | They took me there in the car . |