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

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1 The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods .
2 The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing .
3 He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us .
4 The man took me straight to the Tabard .
5 And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed .
6 She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job .
7 An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east .
8 ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out .
9 My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’
10 No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail
11 Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom .
12 Benjamin took me firmly by the wrist and my horse whickered softly .
13 When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories .
14 It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me .
15 We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was .
16 you know when they were two days old , Trevor took me through to the hospital
17 They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind .
18 She caught up with me and took me along to a paddock to see her horse .
19 ‘ That night , they took me out into the desert and beat me .
20 When Ted took me out into the sea , we had fifty fish
21 In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane .
22 My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio .
23 They took me out , took me out of the bed and just dropped me !
24 They took me out with the wounded .
25 Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting .
26 Harvey took me out to a sauna club he belonged to .
27 A sloop took me out to the ship which dipped and rose wildly in the harbour .
28 Miss Tunstall took me quietly to the hedge :
29 They took me there in the car .
30 The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur .
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