Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took me to the BBC Studios in Shepherd 's Bush and I was introduced to the lady producer , who was charming . |
| 2 | AFTER the strange events which took me to the West African desert , I needed a spell at sea . |
| 3 | It was the day you took me to the Beatles . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
| 5 | He took me to the Paris Zoo . |
| 6 | He took me round the Walker Art Gallery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gray made more than 600 Football League appearances in his playing career and shared in Darlington 's double championship triumph which took them from the GM Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in successive seasons . |
| 11 | In 1894 he was awarded a London county council scholarship with distinctions , which took him to the Kenmont Gardens Science School ( 1894–7 ) and in 1896 he was awarded an evening exhibition to the Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 12 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 13 | I took him to the St Petersburg library , let him show me pictures of the uniforms . |
| 14 | I took him to the Savoy Hotel . |
| 15 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 16 | I took him to the Spar shop ! |
| 17 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 18 | They took her to the Palais des Papes in Avignon where , on a warm evening , they saw a floodlit trench production of Macbeth , the Théâtre Nationale Populaire , with Jean Vilar , drawn and romantic , more damned troubadour than Scots butcher , and Maria Casares , whitely elegant and frenzied , washing blood from her hands whilst angelic trumpets shrilled from high battlements . |
| 19 | PC Hudson arrested the weeping girl straightaway , and took her to the Reading workhouse . |
| 20 | In the event he took her round the Baia Sardinia , a stretch of dancing turquoise water nestling in the embrace of a tumbling rugged coast . |
| 21 | For reaction to the new car , we took it to the MG Car Club 's headquarters on the site of the old factory in Abingdon . |
| 22 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 23 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 24 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | My French climbing partner and I met in Toulouse and a short drive took us over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 26 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 27 | Ambulance came — took us to the London Hospital — only just along the road … . |
| 28 | After lunch two mini-buses took us to the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra and the Dublin deaf were overcome by the beauty of our countryside . |
| 29 | A quick left turn in the direction of America took us to the Longships lighthouse , followed by a turn back towards England and St Just airfield . |
| 30 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |