Example sentences of "[conj] took [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 2 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 3 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 4 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 5 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 6 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 7 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 9 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 10 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 11 | Sure enough , someone met him and took him to the adjutant of No . |
| 12 | The sailors carried him carefully on to the ship , and took him to the Captain , who said : |
| 13 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 14 | Kath snapped instructions to everyone , and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room . |
| 15 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 16 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
| 17 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 18 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 19 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 20 | The inspector removed the cats and took them to the RSPCA home in Martlesham . |
| 21 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 22 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 23 | He searched through the desk for various necessary documents that the bureaucratic world would demand to see now that he was returning to it , and took them to the suitcase in the bedroom , together with his agent 's letter . |
| 24 | PC Hudson arrested the weeping girl straightaway , and took her to the Reading workhouse . |
| 25 | Once outside he linked arms with her and took her to the little pub that the station staff used . |
| 26 | He beckoned her in , and took her to the rail to look over . |
| 27 | P.C. Clifford extracted Mrs. Millings , and took her to the car . |
| 28 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 29 | When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope . |
| 30 | Suddenly the official got up and took me to the lift . |