Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He took me to a pie and mash shop on Hammersmith Broadway .
2 I visited Paris and Versailles , and Lettaure took me to a Joan of Arc festival at Orleans .
3 He took me to a lorry driver 's cafe next door .
4 So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all .
5 He took me to a church where the other forty-four members of the Bulgarian Monarchist Front were mustered outside the front doors .
6 Then they took me to a room where I was in solitary confinement .
7 She took me to a corner where a miniature chest stood on a table .
8 He and the policeman took me to a lift and we went down many floors .
9 He did , he took me to a concert , to hear the Russians play Shostakovich .
10 He took me to a mountain hut where he lit a fire .
11 My mother took me to a paediatrician on the East Side of town , once or twice a year .
12 He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money !
13 When he took me to a football match we saw Paul Gascoigne and I was allowed to go on the pitch .
14 MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare .
15 After some tricky aid above the pegs , a section of typically marvellous free climbing , on pockets and depressions with target features reasonably near at hand , took me to the edge of the abyss — a blank wall with a piece of tat weaving , taunting , 40 feet above .
16 Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready .
17 She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday .
18 He took me to the BBC Studios in Shepherd 's Bush and I was introduced to the lady producer , who was charming .
19 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 .
20 AFTER the strange events which took me to the West African desert , I needed a spell at sea .
21 He took me to the farmer , who soon realized that I was not an animal , but an intelligent being .
22 It was the day you took me to the Beatles . ’
23 I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 .
24 Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission .
25 Hoo-Woo took me to the door where I first came in .
26 She said , come along hold my hand as well and er , I 'll tell my son tha that , that er Mr 's son took me to the door .
27 Towsie ( nickname for one of the foreign miners ) came and sat down beside me while the smoke cleared a bit , and then took me to the trench , which was full of red embers , roasting the rock as when you roast eggs in the ashes .
28 In the morning she took me to the station , with my luggage including the cot , put me on the train , and said ‘ Goodbye . ’
29 My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train .
30 ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’
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