Example sentences of "had take [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 2 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 3 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 4 | I could not remember him , but knew he was my mother 's brother , who had taken me to his house when my parents both died . |
| 5 | Once he had taken me to Brighton for the day . |
| 6 | Lisa and Jo had taken her to clinics , booked her in with midwives , read up on birth technology , warned her about smoking ; and all with an air of adult exasperation towards a wayward child . |
| 7 | Then last night he had taken her to St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 8 | He had taken her to a modest hotel in Albemarle Street , and booked in there as Mr and Mrs Arkwright . |
| 9 | Soon after he met Marigold he had taken her to the opera to see Die Walküre and afterwards had said without forethought : |
| 10 | ‘ Go and put on something beautiful , ’ he said at seven , after he had had two overt vodkas , and poured , as was his habit , a single , large , secret one , and had taken her to bed . |
| 11 | Despite the heat , Ludovico 's passion had taken her to heights she had not dreamed were possible . |
| 12 | He had taken her to Boston 's leading department store . |
| 13 | He had taken her to most of the local beauty spots ; arranged for cannon to be fired over the lake for their echoes and the quaint museum to be selectively open when they visited the place . |
| 14 | It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens . |
| 15 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 16 | He had taken her to Daudet 's again . |
| 17 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 18 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |
| 19 | He had taken her to lunch at La Noblesse where they had eaten cod in a watercress sauce and drunk between them a bottle of Chinon , Clos de l'Echo ‘ 86 . |
| 20 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 21 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 22 | Fernando had taken her to the Zarzuela , the Spanish operettas that had taken her breath away . |
| 23 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 24 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 25 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 26 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 27 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 28 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 29 | Once she had taken them to the cinema and Oliver had been sick with excitement and ice-cream . |
| 30 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |