Example sentences of "took [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took nothing from the van which was delivering to Barclays Bank . |
| 2 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 3 | He took me to a pie and mash shop on Hammersmith Broadway . |
| 4 | Then they took me to a room where I was in solitary confinement . |
| 5 | She took me to a corner where a miniature chest stood on a table . |
| 6 | On the second evening of my visit he took me to a literary party given by the Chicago Tribune in honour of Carl Sandberg in the sumptuous lounge of a club called ‘ The 333 ’ ( at 333 Michigan Boulevard ) . |
| 7 | He took me to a lorry driver 's cafe next door . |
| 8 | ‘ He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him . |
| 9 | So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all . |
| 10 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 11 | He took me to a church where the other forty-four members of the Bulgarian Monarchist Front were mustered outside the front doors . |
| 12 | He and the policeman took me to a lift and we went down many floors . |
| 13 | He did , he took me to a concert , to hear the Russians play Shostakovich . |
| 14 | ‘ As I was saying , I went round and Daddy took me to a French restaurant he knew . ’ |
| 15 | When he took me to a football match we saw Paul Gascoigne and I was allowed to go on the pitch . |
| 16 | I visited Paris and Versailles , and Lettaure took me to a Joan of Arc festival at Orleans . |
| 17 | He took me to a mountain hut where he lit a fire . |
| 18 | My mother took me to a paediatrician on the East Side of town , once or twice a year . |
| 19 | He took me to a waiting Jaguar equipped with air conditioning , stereo system , and a very pretty girl : ‘ at my disposal for the rest of my stay ’ . |
| 20 | We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal . |
| 21 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 22 | MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare . |
| 23 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 24 | After some tricky aid above the pegs , a section of typically marvellous free climbing , on pockets and depressions with target features reasonably near at hand , took me to the edge of the abyss — a blank wall with a piece of tat weaving , taunting , 40 feet above . |
| 25 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 26 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
| 27 | She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday . |
| 28 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 29 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 30 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |