Example sentences of "took us [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 7 | My French climbing partner and I met in Toulouse and a short drive took us over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then Edward 's papa took us on the lake in a rowing-boat . ’ |
| 10 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny . |
| 14 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 15 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 16 | and took us to the dancing horses and then |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ambulance came — took us to the London Hospital — only just along the road … . |
| 20 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 23 | After lunch two mini-buses took us to the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra and the Dublin deaf were overcome by the beauty of our countryside . |
| 24 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum . |
| 27 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 28 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 29 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 30 | A quick left turn in the direction of America took us to the Longships lighthouse , followed by a turn back towards England and St Just airfield . |