Example sentences of "[noun] took them [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A white limousine took them to the church .
2 The trip home took them over the Bay of Biscay , and they descended ‘ on the deck ’ as planned , flying no more than 100 feet above the water .
3 At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels .
4 However they sounded , Tina took them in the spirit they were intended , laughed loudly and said Jasper must be playing hookey in his lunch hour .
5 Stephen took them up the zig-zag track .
6 Auguste took them into the scullery .
7 A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney .
8 The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall .
9 The travellers ' flight took them across the desert .
10 A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats .
11 The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war .
12 RUGBY SCHOOL 's ambitious Antipodean tour took them from the birthplace of the game in England to Nelson , where the first game of rugby was played in New Zealand between the Nelson club and Nelson College in 1870 .
13 But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals .
14 His team , he admits , got away with murder in this match before goals from Paul Showler and Mark Carter took them to the top .
15 This Summer took them on the festival trail , with impressive shows at Féile and Reading to their credit .
16 The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard .
17 The phrase ‘ A Dave McCullouch band ’ was often used to describe those whose musical wanderings took them into the world of personal art ethics and therefore obscurity . )
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