Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He took me to the farmer , who soon realized that I was not an animal , but an intelligent being . |
| 6 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 7 | Hoo-Woo took me to the door where I first came in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the morning she took me to the station , with my luggage including the cot , put me on the train , and said ‘ Goodbye . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 14 | Flupper took me to the shore and I ran to Lollo . |
| 15 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 16 | Suddenly the official got up and took me to the lift . |
| 17 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 18 | They took me to the hospital , and then took me back home . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 22 | But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor . |
| 23 | But I kept on thinking , he took me to the concert , and he came back here to her . |
| 24 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 25 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 26 | Mr Duncan took me to the farm and I met Dan and Stella Parks . |
| 27 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 28 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
| 29 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 30 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |