Example sentences of "took we [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 2 | A lay brother came over and took us into the abbey church to hear morning mass and , believe me , for the glory is now gone , the abbey church of Glastonbury was the nearest thing to heaven on earth . |
| 3 | The coach then took us into the Wachau Valley for lunch at another 5-star hotel and then after a short walk through the medieval village and Durnstein Castle , we went on to the ‘ UND ’ Monastery at Krems for a wine tasting . |
| 4 | After this , at Mandeville 's insistence , the old brother took us into the library , a long room , its walls covered with heaped shelves of books . |
| 5 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 6 | We went with our newly found friend who took us through the side door to a shed at the back of his premises and showed us what could only be described as treasure — five large horse collars of black leather . |
| 7 | Then Edward 's papa took us on the lake in a rowing-boat . ’ |
| 8 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
| 9 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 10 | Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny . |
| 11 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 12 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 13 | and took us to the dancing horses and then |
| 14 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 15 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 16 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 17 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 18 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 19 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 20 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 21 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 22 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 23 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 24 | The next morning he took us to the place where the evil Sir Hugo died . |
| 25 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 26 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 27 | The Homeless Unit took us to the Housing Department . |
| 28 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 29 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 30 | 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 . |