Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 2 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 3 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 4 | Ma took me to another barber 's in Stockbridge . |
| 5 | And she actually took me on this war work . |
| 6 | He took me through many secret doors and passages , down , down under the Opera House . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 8 | Then he took me in both hands and pushed my legs into the top of the bone . |
| 9 | They took me in this bungalow |
| 10 | That way you can tell yourself you took me from another man . ’ |
| 11 | He took me round that blooming Argyle Road three times . |
| 12 | Oh , Brian took me round that corner , right , slowed down too much |
| 13 | he took me round that corner for three times today . |
| 14 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 15 | For a family with particular needs for quiet it was ideal , and when Mr Cohen was well a short walk took them into this repose of diverting potential . |
| 16 | Well you took them off that did n't you ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
| 21 | I took you over many a sea , |
| 22 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 23 | Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know . |
| 24 | His spare time took him to many of Yorkshire 's fixtures . |
| 25 | In the years that followed , his career took him to many different locations and a wide variety of posts within our Department . |
| 26 | While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 29 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 30 | It was a Smythe drill , and his father took him on some ‘ short work ’ , a piece of land where no one could see it . |