Example sentences of "i took [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took him to a nearby café . |
| 2 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 3 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 4 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 5 | I took him to the ‘ Tally 's ’ ( ice-cream shop ) at the corner of our street and Bedford Street — and bought him a large cone . |
| 6 | I took him to the Savoy Hotel . |
| 7 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 8 | I took him to the St Petersburg library , let him show me pictures of the uniforms . |
| 9 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |
| 10 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 11 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 12 | Now if Mr is saying that outside the context of the structure plan entirely which is all I took him to be saying , that the members of North Yorkshire County Council are still determined to build a road to the north of of erm |
| 13 | Ms Tierney , of Victor Paul Terrace , Edinburgh , told a fatal accident inquiry in Dunfermline yesterday : ‘ On 15 August when he complained of blinding headaches I took him to my GP who referred him to Milesmark hospital in Dunfermline with suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage . |
| 14 | some money out of it , I took him to court . |
| 15 | I took him to the Spar shop ! |
| 16 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 17 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 18 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 19 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 21 | About the third time we went to the beach ( I took them to the one known since 1945 as ‘ Staging Post B ’ ) , as soon as I rejoined the group I realised she 'd told them . |
| 22 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 23 | The first night I took them to bed at quarter past seven . |
| 24 | We took them to the fish , well I took them to the fish and no , many o , any of the oth other groups went and some of them , they 're very good ! |
| 25 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 26 | ‘ I took her to her office , ’ Morton said jauntily , ‘ and instructed that she should be plied with hot , sweet tea . |
| 27 | We had dinner at a good restaurant round the corner and then I took her to Sammy 's Bowery Follies , a popular nostalgic show in lower Manhatten . |
| 28 | ‘ I took her to a little friend 's birthday party yesterday — life when you 're almost two has to go on as near to normal as we can make it . |
| 29 | I took her to my room , so that her feathers would n't get up Mum 's nose . |
| 30 | ‘ I took her to Anglesey , ’ says Christine , ‘ where we have a house , and where I could concentrate on her completely . |