Example sentences of "took us [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 .
2 Sixteen of us flew into Delhi — and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains .
3 Then , like Shah Jehan with the guests at Dara 's wedding , Mr Postman took us over to the trunk to admire the presents .
4 She took us through to the scan .
5 After the train , we went on Mr Ross 's boat , which took us out to the island .
6 He seemed pleased to remind us of yet more evidence of Bouilland 's humming modernity , and took us out into the sun again .
7 There the story remained until December 1988 when six members of the Fenland Aircraft Preservation Society ( FAPS ) organised a field reconnaissance and met with a local farmer who remembered the crash and took us along to the field .
8 Our instructor took us off into the unknown for the next few hours , where we experienced ice , spring snow , powder and crud .
9 They took us back into the main passageway , past the hall and into a small chamber where Gavin Douglas , Earl of Angus , whom I had glimpsed during the banquet , now lounged in a chair .
10 They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison .
11 In effect , in one step the concept of the turbidity current took us back to the catastrophism of earlier geological thought .
12 She took us back to the house where a servant showed us up to our rooms .
13 We got a lot of plaudits for that victory because it took us back to the top of the league . ’
14 The bus for the centre of Cairo took us down to the Nile and then along the Corniche to the 6th of October bridge .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 At last the sun began to set and Agrippa took us down to the courtyard to watch the other great Scottish lords arrive .
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