Example sentences of "took [pers pn] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 2 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 3 | RUGBY SCHOOL 's ambitious Antipodean tour took them from the birthplace of the game in England to Nelson , where the first game of rugby was played in New Zealand between the Nelson club and Nelson College in 1870 . |
| 4 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 5 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 6 | What , cast the poor remains into the Severn when he took them from the grave ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As Mrs Burrows took him from the hall she said to Eva " You 'd better finish the service " . |
| 9 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 10 | Trent took him from the rear . |
| 11 | She was sent out on an adventure which took her from the Annunciation to pentecost , and the questions and uncertainties built up . |
| 12 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 13 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 14 | He took it from the forceps and examined it carefully . |
| 15 | He took it from the packing case , staring , thunderstruck . |
| 16 | Took it from the captain 's cabin . ’ |
| 17 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 18 | When she took it from the oven she was pleased with it , but later , placing it on the trestle table in the hall where refreshments were to be served , she saw that Sister Dew 's was higher . |
| 19 | Grant took it from the loft this morning . |
| 20 | ‘ He took it from the gene labs . |
| 21 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |
| 22 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 23 | ‘ How very different from Spain' was Dana 's first comment as the bus took us from the station to Avondale Buildings . |
| 24 | 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 . |