Example sentences of "took me [prep] the " in BNC.
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31 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
32 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
33 | Towsie ( nickname for one of the foreign miners ) came and sat down beside me while the smoke cleared a bit , and then took me to the trench , which was full of red embers , roasting the rock as when you roast eggs in the ashes . |
34 | AFTER the strange events which took me to the West African desert , I needed a spell at sea . |
35 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
36 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
37 | He took me to the pictures . ’ |
38 | ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’ |
39 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
40 | It was the day you took me to the Beatles . ’ |
41 | She said , come along hold my hand as well and er , I 'll tell my son tha that , that er Mr 's son took me to the door . |
42 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
43 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
44 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
45 | I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead . |
46 | She took me into the nurses ' changing-room . |
47 | At eleven she sent Gwenellen to take over temporarily and took me into the duty-room . |
48 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |
49 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
50 | He took me into the office and gave me a chair . |
51 | A maid took me into the sitting room , where a very pretty lady with dark hair was working at a typewriter . |
52 | That was a lot of money in those days and the others were so impressed , they took me into the sing-song and had me elected by acclamation . ’ |
53 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
54 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
55 | Helen continued to circulate ; I decided it was time for a pee and then maybe some food , which took me via the garden ( there was a queue for the downstairs loo , and the upper part of the castle was locked ) to the kitchen . |
56 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
57 | He took me through the stages a beginner would complete in preparation for a skiing holiday . |
58 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
59 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
60 | Two cherry berets took me through the first gate . |