Example sentences of "took them [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |
| 2 | Then in the early morning , just before dawn , they took them into the woods and shot them . |
| 3 | In the morning , just before it was light , they took them into the woods and shot them . |
| 4 | Ross , the steward , appeared , commiserated that they were all soaked through and took them into the lounge . |
| 5 | Early this year my wife parked her car in the college car park , collected up books , yarns and accessories first and took them into the classroom . |
| 6 | He took them into the room where people usually waited for the trains — but now there was a carpet on the floor , and flowers above the pictures on the walls . |
| 7 | I took them into the byre so that they could shelter from the rain . |
| 8 | But they took them into the castle at Montgomery , prisoners . ’ |
| 9 | The phrase ‘ A Dave McCullouch band ’ was often used to describe those whose musical wanderings took them into the world of personal art ethics and therefore obscurity . ) |
| 10 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 11 | I took them into the underground . |
| 12 | Auguste took them into the scullery . |
| 13 | It was a legacy that granted the fabled works of Gould their success , and took them into the forefront of nineteenth-century illustration . |
| 14 | He says charity shops should be allowed to sell second hand toys as they 've always done and the legislation which took them off the shelves was wrongly framed and should be scrapped . |
| 15 | She took them off the minute she entered her apartment block , realising that since no one at Vasey 's had seen her without her glasses they had no need to question why she was wearing them now . |
| 16 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |
| 17 | Melinda pleaded a headache and went inside , and I took them across the road to the soft drinks stall to hear the report of the uncle , and then get rid of them . |
| 18 | ‘ They then took them across the pedestrian bridge over the Westlink and , to calm them down , told them they were in the university area . |
| 19 | The trip home took them over the Bay of Biscay , and they descended ‘ on the deck ’ as planned , flying no more than 100 feet above the water . |
| 20 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 21 | Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept . |
| 22 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 23 | This Summer took them on the festival trail , with impressive shows at Féile and Reading to their credit . |
| 24 | I took them for the shrine in the loft one night , and have them to this day , little brown twists of dried plant like old Sellotape , stuck in a little glass bottle . |
| 25 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 26 | You took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 27 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 28 | Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill . |
| 29 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 30 | A white limousine took them to the church . |