Example sentences of "he took [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took himself to the call-box in his lodgings night after night , but whether he was sloshed or sober there was no way of finding the nerve to dial . |
| 2 | He took him to a room in which was H. W. Hall , a solicitor . |
| 3 | He took him to a room behind the stage . |
| 4 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 5 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 6 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 7 | When Gebrec approached , he took him by the arm and murmured something which Melissa took to be a mild reproof . |
| 8 | To Finlayson 's surprise , he took him by the elbow and steered him , quite gently , to the door . |
| 9 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 10 | It er er he pleated the he the halter into the tail of the leading horse and he took them down the road in a string like a train . |
| 11 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 12 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 13 | He took them to the nearest streetlamp to read the addresses . |
| 14 | Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill . |
| 15 | He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory . |
| 16 | He took them for a stroll along the banks of the stream . |
| 17 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises . |
| 20 | What , cast the poor remains into the Severn when he took them from the grave ? ’ |
| 21 | He took her on a tour of the city , and she enthused over the faded glories of Georgian architecture and the charm of the bridges spanning the river Liffey . |
| 22 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 23 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 24 | He took her to every room in the house and with a cool economy of speech explained the merits of the installation , pointing out its adaptability and demonstrating its efficacy . |
| 25 | He took her to a club in Camden Town , a dark cellar where a jazz quintet played hypnotic Chicago blues and where the pale faces of London 's night people were lit by candles as they drank , smoked and laughed . |
| 26 | He took her to a tiny cafe in the industrial suburbs , an area of Paris that Isobel had never visited before . |
| 27 | He took her to a graveyard high on the slope behind the house . |
| 28 | He took her to a Forest Hill bedsit where he repeatedly raped her before releasing her . |
| 29 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 30 | For instance , he took her to a newly opened Greek restaurant , and introduced her to the delights of something called Baklava Syrien , which , having a sweet tooth , she very much enjoyed — although he managed simultaneously to annoy her by various highly irritating remarks about the way in which West Indians eat Kit-e-Kat , and by a joke about a man in a Chinese restaurant who found a finger in his Chinese soup . |