Example sentences of "took me [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 3 | and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ? |
| 4 | He brought me flowers , took me out to dinner and the theatre , and was generally attentive to me , as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman . |
| 5 | ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’ |
| 6 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 8 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |