Example sentences of "they took [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took him to the cider ward of the local hospital and a week later he was dead . |
| 2 | ‘ They took him to the mortuary and called me . ’ |
| 3 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 4 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 5 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 6 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 7 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 8 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 9 | They took me to the hospital , and then took me back home . |
| 10 | They took her to the Palais des Papes in Avignon where , on a warm evening , they saw a floodlit trench production of Macbeth , the Théâtre Nationale Populaire , with Jean Vilar , drawn and romantic , more damned troubadour than Scots butcher , and Maria Casares , whitely elegant and frenzied , washing blood from her hands whilst angelic trumpets shrilled from high battlements . |
| 11 | They took her to the sort of restaurants she could mention without shame next day when her colleagues at work asked ‘ Where did he take you ? ’ |
| 12 | There was me as well , you see , and there was nothing we could do and er she 'd had this erm , it was awful , they took her to the mortuary because some of the girls , you see , erm , you know they went hysterical and er I 'm not gon na pass her door , that sort of thing . |
| 13 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 14 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 15 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 16 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 17 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 18 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 19 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 20 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 21 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 22 | Dried their own grain afore they took it to the mill . |