Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did n't live at that address and eventually he took me to his own home . |
| 2 | To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom . |
| 3 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 4 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 5 | Both Parker and Spurgeon were able to maintain elegant homes and a carriage and pair which took them to their respective chapels . |
| 6 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 7 | Instead he went into his own church , secured the door , lit candles and took them to his small carrel where he placed his writing tray . |
| 8 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 9 | After a night racked with pain , Bill 's wife Violet took him to their local hospital where horrified doctors treated his multiple injuries . |
| 10 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 11 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 12 | His parents took him into their adjoining cabin when he wept — and saved his life . |
| 13 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 14 | The well-to-do uncle treated John as a son and took him into his expanding business . |
| 15 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 16 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 17 | But she twisted round and took him in her dusty hands , he felt the blood pump past her fingers . |
| 18 | Sara took him in her newly-decorated classrooms upstairs with their modern office equipment — she was particularly proud of her electric typewriter — but David Fairfax was more interested in the photographs of her grandfather , driving his tandems and four-in-hands , on the landing walls . |
| 19 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 20 | The bus back took her past her own mother 's house . |
| 21 | Wendy and Dev presently parted ; Wendy , who by then had a real drink problem , was hired to do a milk delivery round which took her to her own doorstep , and daily contact with Apricot , until Ken put a stop to it . |
| 22 | He took her to his own restaurant , Duveens . |
| 23 | And er later on he took it into his own name you see . |
| 24 | JC : Ben took it into his own hands . |
| 25 | ’ ’ I took it for something inevitable . |
| 26 | Nobody used the shed , and Conradin took it for his own . |
| 27 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 28 | No wonder the Twelve made it their priority , and the nameless missionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon . |
| 29 | The Mastermind television quiz game turned its attention to Formula 1 motor racing when Michael Swartz took it as his specialised subject recently . |
| 30 | Fitzsimmons , from the Floral Dance town of Helston in Cornwall , took it off him five years later . |