Example sentences of "had taken [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 2 | He had taken me under his featherless wing to this extent , giving me lifts and sharing with me some of his unusual theories . |
| 3 | I could not remember him , but knew he was my mother 's brother , who had taken me to his house when my parents both died . |
| 4 | Here she had first met Ion Manescu who had taken her under his wing — she was an invaluable conduit as to what was going on in Moscow and sympathetic to the Romanian régime . |
| 5 | He 's the sort of grandfather I would have liked to have , ’ Paige said shortly , then softened her tone as she thought of the kindly gentleman who had taken her under his wing . |
| 6 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 7 | She had felt quite revolted when Alec Ardis had , without the smallest encouragement , grabbed her ; she had felt nauseated when Fisher had , uninvited , caught hold of her ; so why had she felt none of these things last Tuesday night , when Naylor Massingham had taken her in his arms ? |
| 8 | Delivering her back to her hotel at five in the morning , he had taken her in his arms in the lobby , not caring if the world witnessed his kiss . |
| 9 | On 5 December 1991 the father applied for an order that his two children be returned to the jurisdiction of the State of Victoria , Australia , on the ground that the mother had taken them without his consent in breach of the joint custodial rights vested in him under the Australian Family Law Act 1975 . |
| 10 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 11 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |
| 12 | Simon 's uncle had taken him under his wing , so Simon and his wife , Mary , half lived there . |
| 13 | Stumbling forward blindly , he tried to recall the route the oriental had taken him after his capture on his previous visit . |
| 14 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |