Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our GP took me straight to Queen Mary 's , Roehampton . |
| 2 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 3 | They took me over to Cheapside and I was remanded in custody . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 5 | and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ? |
| 6 | He brought me flowers , took me out to dinner and the theatre , and was generally attentive to me , as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman . |
| 7 | ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’ |
| 8 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |
| 9 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 10 | Afterwards , when I would have preferred to stay and stare at Agnes , he took me down to King 's Wharf near the Vintry and into a small ale house which stank of carp and salt . |
| 11 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 12 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 14 | As soon as we were married he took me off to Scotland , kept me there in virtual purdah , never let me out of his sight — his jealousy was manic . |
| 15 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 16 | They took me back to Edinburgh , and people in the streets screamed at me : ‘ Kill the woman ! |
| 17 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 18 | I say that now but at the time I took my task extremely seriously and I swelled with pride when Mr Broadhurst took me back to Churchill Square to buy my second book . |
| 19 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 20 | Afterwards he went out and bought flowers from a seller , and took them round to Dinah 's dressing-room , but was routed by Mrs Seale . |
| 21 | He sent on Dublin and Mick Norbury and , within 30 seconds of the restart , they combined to give Cambridge the victory which , after four successive draws , took them back to second in the table . |
| 22 | Robert and Christine 's mother came early this morning and took them back to London . |
| 23 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 24 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 25 | We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter . |
| 26 | Cardiff came back strongly , however , and a series of drives by Kawulok and Sedgemore took them almost to Llanelli 's line . |
| 27 | Cardiff came back strongly , however , and a series of drives by Kawulok and Sedgemore took them almost to Llanelli 's line . |
| 28 | I mean , he took you out to dinner one night . |
| 29 | And in September ninety two , if I took you back to sort of September ninety one figures were quite different , well in September ninety two , eighty nine percent of our business was next day . |
| 30 | After I took him over to Aldina Simmonds when he was just a tot , Turpie and Leon never met . |