Example sentences of "[noun sg] took [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pink took her to the garden and showed her the rose arch . |
| 2 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 3 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 4 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 5 | A white limousine took them to the church . |
| 6 | Yeah , having some dinner , well we did n't have any did we , cos mummy took you to the pictures with nanny |
| 7 | With bids all over the room , as well as on phones , the Baltimore Museum 's $28,000 ( £20,000 ) bid took it beyond the grasp of New York painting dealer Stuart Feld ( who really did n't need it , having nine others ) . |
| 8 | She went round to her former home in Hardwicke , Gloucestershire , where she was beaten unconscious by Probyn , who put her back into her Renault 19 car took her to the River and some how pushed her in . |
| 9 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 10 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 13 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
| 14 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |
| 15 | Her toecap took him under the chin , close to the throat . |
| 16 | Then Edward 's papa took us on the lake in a rowing-boat . ’ |
| 17 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 20 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 21 | Madame took her to the City Library in Nîmes , a gaunt , dark building with high shutters behind grilles and dusty leather books , ceiling high . |
| 22 | The taxi took her to the airport . |
| 23 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was arrested for riding a bicycle without a rear light ; I woke as an enraged policeman took me by the throat . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And after another sleepless night , the green-eyed woman took her to the commanding officer . |
| 30 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |