Example sentences of "took him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe decided on a walk and his walk took him along Green Bank and down the High Street , where crumbling houses and shops were being rejuvenated or demolished , into the main street . |
| 2 | His journey took him via Saudi , Kuwait , Iraq , Syria , Turkey , Greece , Yugoslavia [ that was ] , Austria and onwards through Europe . |
| 3 | I took him for dead , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His spare time took him to many of Yorkshire 's fixtures . |
| 6 | In the years that followed , his career took him to many different locations and a wide variety of posts within our Department . |
| 7 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 8 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 9 | His first major title — the Strachan Professional — received little publicity , but his 38-minute four-frame coup de grace on Parrott to wrap up a 9–3 win took him to fifth in the rankings and made anything seem possible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 13 | Mr Christopher 's trip took him to six Arab countries , Jordan , Egypt , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Lebanon , and Israel . |
| 14 | A penalty and a conversion took him to 403 , still within sight of John Liley 's record of 439 with three weeks of the season left . |
| 15 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 16 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 17 | The Champ , who retired six years , was an institution and his extraordinary finishing burst took him to 20 track records . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 20 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 21 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 22 | It was a Smythe drill , and his father took him on some ‘ short work ’ , a piece of land where no one could see it . |
| 23 | Tripp 's starting point may have been road accidents , but his overall grasp of the problem took him into wider fields . |
| 24 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 25 | It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company . |
| 26 | His way took him through narrow alleys , between rows of little granite cottages whose front doors opened to the street . |
| 27 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 28 | Chris Renninson set Hibberd away down the right and his excellent control took him past two defenders and gave him the time and space to send over a pinpoint cross to O'Shea , who rose unchallenged to head home from close range . |
| 29 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 30 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |