Example sentences of "and [pron] took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , ’ replied the motor man irritably , ‘ you can say ‘ I came amongst you and you took me in ’ . ’ |
| 2 | And she took to me and she took me to Liverpool and they were very good to me . |
| 3 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 4 | He carried me here , he knows the fam'ly , and they took me in . |
| 5 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 6 | And they took me on in nineteen thirty six to help them you see . |
| 7 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 8 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |
| 9 | John Peacock has designed the gown , of course , and he took me to meet Martin Adams who is making the crown . |
| 10 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 12 | And he took me out in it for a test drive . |
| 13 | And he took me home , er he gave me a good talking to , and tell me dad , cos me , I nearly , I got a good hiding , was going to get a good hiding from me dad , until this policeman says , do n't worry , he says er , you wo n't hear anything about it . |
| 14 | I held out my hands to my father as he came into the room , and he took me in his arms . |
| 15 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 16 | ‘ I went to meet him and he took me on — now I go for lessons twice a week . ’ |
| 17 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 20 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 21 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 22 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 23 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 24 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 25 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 26 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 27 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 28 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 29 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 30 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |