Example sentences of "he took her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He took her to a tiny cafe in the industrial suburbs , an area of Paris that Isobel had never visited before . |
| 7 | He took her to a graveyard high on the slope behind the house . |
| 8 | He took her to a Forest Hill bedsit where he repeatedly raped her before releasing her . |
| 9 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He took her to a small farmhouse , and hid her in the bam . |
| 12 | He took her to a rather smart Italian restaurant full of intimate little tables far too close together for private conversation . |
| 13 | He took her to a cool shady room with a large bed , the venetian blinds closed , thin silky curtains from floor to ceiling and a fan swishing gently . |
| 14 | He took her to a house in Gloucester but gave himself up after police surrounded the property . |
| 15 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 16 | He took her to the balustrade . |
| 17 | He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel . |
| 18 | He took her to the airport nurse , who could find nothing wrong with her but agreed that she might be suffering from jet lag and needed only to rest . |
| 19 | He took her to the deserted camp laundry : a large hut with a great copper the size of a steam-engine , a line of deep sinks , and rows of drying lines . |
| 20 | He took her to the greenhouses . |
| 21 | He took her to the foot of the elaborately draped four-poster and opened an iron-banded chest . |
| 22 | He took her to the exit slowly |
| 23 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 24 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 25 | Afterwards he took her to the entrance of the Priors Park Estate , where he released her . |
| 26 | After threatening Miss Slater with a knife , he took her to the converted pub in Newark , Nottinghamshire , he used as a workshop for his tool repair business . |
| 27 | So he took her down the hill again . |
| 28 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 29 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 30 | He took her into a little recess aside |