Example sentences of "took [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 2 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 3 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 4 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 5 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 6 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 7 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 9 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 10 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
| 11 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 12 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 13 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 14 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 15 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 17 | He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there . |
| 18 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 19 | He took her down to the bathroom , and turned on the geyser for her . |
| 20 | Dr Rafaelo took her down to the poolside . |
| 21 | which was quicker , took her down to the mission , she stayed in the car till I went up to the mission to get our money signed for our money and come out and er |
| 22 | Artemis reached up and took it down off the shelf . |
| 23 | They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters . |
| 24 | The next day , Bobbie put Peter 's engine in a box and took it down to the railway . |
| 25 | I took it down to the Spar shop as well . |
| 26 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 27 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 28 | The bus for the centre of Cairo took us down to the Nile and then along the Corniche to the 6th of October bridge . |
| 29 | ‘ I think Stephen wanted James to see the site first thing this morning before you took us down to the house , ’ Elaine said , and helped herself to a warm bun which she tore open , spreading it thickly with butter and lime jelly . |
| 30 | At last the sun began to set and Agrippa took us down to the courtyard to watch the other great Scottish lords arrive . |