Example sentences of "[coord] took [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving the men and Madeleine sipping Calvados and smoking , the two girls brushed the crumbs off the glossy white cloth and took themselves to the kitchen . |
| 2 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 3 | Jekyll 's servant , Poole , let him in at once and took him through the kitchen and across the back garden to the laboratory behind the house . |
| 4 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 5 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 6 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 7 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 10 | Sure enough , someone met him and took him to the adjutant of No . |
| 11 | The sailors carried him carefully on to the ship , and took him to the Captain , who said : |
| 12 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 13 | Kath snapped instructions to everyone , and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room . |
| 14 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 15 | ‘ The Protection Police arrived and took him off the Otso . |
| 16 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 17 | Paul did not , or affected not to , hear her and Erika walked across the yard and took him by the elbow . |
| 18 | A few minutes later she hurried back and took him by the hand . |
| 19 | He reached for Pie and took him by the throat . |
| 20 | At the house door she left the candle burning upon a shelf within , and took him by the hand to lead him across the stones of the court to the wicket gate ; but he halted her suddenly , drawing her back within the shelter of the doorway . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The inspector removed the cats and took them to the RSPCA home in Martlesham . |
| 26 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 30 | Early this year my wife parked her car in the college car park , collected up books , yarns and accessories first and took them into the classroom . |