Example sentences of "took [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 2 | Before they left , she took me to one side . |
| 3 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 4 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 5 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 6 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 7 | Ma took me to another barber 's in Stockbridge . |
| 8 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 9 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 10 | But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour |
| 11 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 12 | The Champ , who retired six years , was an institution and his extraordinary finishing burst took him to 20 track records . |
| 13 | ‘ You never took her to that hole , Vic ? ’ |
| 14 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |
| 15 | Do you expect me to send food and wine to the men whose forefathers took mine to wretched imprisonment in Genoa ? |
| 16 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 17 | I took it to this kid at |
| 18 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 19 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
| 20 | There was a marketing push in December that took it to third spot but by January the Escort was back to fifth position , behind even the aged Vauxhall Astra . |