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Example sentences of "he took [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Then he took something from his pocket and put it on the table .
2	He took something from his pocket and thrust it into Robyn 's hands .
3	Every nerve in her body was taut , stretched to breaking-point ; gently he took something from her hair , holding up a small twig for her to see .
4	Perhaps in those preceding silences he took himself through some sort of editing process , preparatory to making an entrance in which not a word would be wasted .
5	He took himself to the call-box in his lodgings night after night , but whether he was sloshed or sober there was no way of finding the nerve to dial .
6	In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy .
7	He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches .
8	He took him to a room in which was H. W. Hall , a solicitor .
9	He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn .
10	He took him to a room behind the stage .
11	He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out .
12	But , it was said , he took him to his flat and indecently assaulted him while two other men looked on .
13	Allison turned Book into a League star at the age of 30 when he took him from non-League Bath City to Plymouth Argyle .
14	When Gebrec approached , he took him by the arm and murmured something which Melissa took to be a mild reproof .
15	To Finlayson 's surprise , he took him by the elbow and steered him , quite gently , to the door .
16	He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio .
17	It er er he pleated the he the halter into the tail of the leading horse and he took them down the road in a string like a train .
18	Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour .
19	He took them to the nearest streetlamp to read the addresses .
20	Then he took them to his study for a more serious talk .
21	Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill .
22	Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard .
23	He took them to Mahala Andrews , an expert in fossil fishes at the Chambers Street Museum to learn that these were specimens no-one had ever seen before and they included a species of fresh water shark .
24	He took them for drives , showing her the extraordinary beauties of Umbria .
25	He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory .
26	W. C. T. had been busy in other ways too , fathering a series of children ; three at least were to die young , and he took them for burial to his cousins , Baptist Chapel at Worship Street , Shoreditch .
27	Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind
28	He took them for a stroll along the banks of the stream .
29	He took them into the room where people usually waited for the trains — but now there was a carpet on the floor , and flowers above the pictures on the walls .
30	He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises .