Example sentences of "that took [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 2 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 3 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 4 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 5 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 6 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 7 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 8 | He started in plastics , working from Coventry and Spondon , and joined Courtaulds Central Trading in the mid-1970s — a move that took him to East Germany , Yugoslavia and eventually the whole of Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | The squad ( pictured here ) that took them to Murrayfield in pole position among the four qualifiers was : J. Barnard , B. Buitendag , J. Deysel , P. Du Plooy , G. Mans ( captain ) E. Meyer , H. Snyman , A. Van Rooyen , P. Von Wielligh and W. Wentzel . |
| 10 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 12 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 13 | At the end of May 1913 Emily Davison was at home in Longhorsley , near Morpeth , recovering from her latest spell in prison , when she received by telegram the instructions that took her to Tattenham Corner as the Derby field approached . |
| 14 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 15 | ‘ I was young and hot then ’ , she says , talking of her dancing days in LA , and later in the famous European tour of the 1950s of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess that took her to La Scala . |
| 16 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 17 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 18 | Indeed , until recently the flight that took you to Iceland landed at the base itself rather than on ‘ real' Icelandic soil . |
| 19 | ‘ So that was the business that took you to Holland ? ’ |