Example sentences of "she took [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her only task in the clean-up was to empty the two jam jars of snowdrops , but instead of disposing of the flowers she took them with her . |
| 2 | She took them with such sweetness , and grace , with such a look of affectionate gratitude and pleasure , that Gabriel felt like the Wise Man who presented frankincense to the Virgin Mary . |
| 3 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 4 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 5 | Mrs Sargent was kind ; she took them for drives in the car . |
| 6 | She took them for granted , of course . |
| 7 | Then she took them into Arkwright 's and bought them a bar of chocolate each , which she could ill afford , and they all went back to the Vicarage . |
| 8 | She took them into the almost deserted coffee lounge . |
| 9 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 10 | She took them off the minute she entered her apartment block , realising that since no one at Vasey 's had seen her without her glasses they had no need to question why she was wearing them now . |
| 11 | She took them by a short cut to the Weinbaum Canal . |
| 12 | She took them in unsteady hands stained with grave marks , and peered with suspicion at the manufacturer 's name . |
| 13 | Her child had a nightmare and she took him into her bed to comfort him . |
| 14 | The small living-room she took him into was made even smaller by the amount of stuff she had in there . |
| 15 | Then she took him into a shoe shop — and Pip 's father sold her some new shoes for Anthony . |
| 16 | But Bernard fainted so she took him into casualty . |
| 17 | She took him into a small office with a window overlooking the harbour . |
| 18 | When she was free she took him into the office and sank into a chair as though exhausted . |
| 19 | She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair . |
| 20 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |
| 21 | ‘ So it was Alain all the time , and she took him for me , ’ mused Dieter . |
| 22 | Nigel is by no means the fool she took him for . |
| 23 | She took him to the Science Museum and gave him an encyclopaedia , which explained how the internal combustion engine worked — ‘ I was intrigued immensely ’ . |
| 24 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 25 | He had nowhere to go , so she took him to her room , such as it was . |
| 26 | She took him to her home in a middle-class London suburb and her mother disapproved . |
| 27 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 28 | She took him to her room where they could have privacy . |
| 29 | Raymond Lully featured among them , though in apocryphal form , as the subject of a singular conversion experience : inflamed by illicit passion for a married woman , he would brook no denial until she took him to her house and there , in the presence of her husband , bared to Raymond 's astonished eyes a breast almost entirely devoured by cancer . |
| 30 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |