Example sentences of "took us to the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 2 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 3 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 4 | The Homeless Unit took us to the Housing Department . |
| 5 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |
| 6 | This first ‘ phase ’ of the trip took us to the caves of Mulu National Park and Gunung Mulu mountain . |
| 7 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 8 | Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny . |
| 9 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 10 | He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum . |
| 11 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 12 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 13 | After two or three days of exploring Stanley and its environs it was time to go to ‘ camp ’ ( from a Spanish word ‘ campos ’ meaning countryside ) and our tour of the islands took us to the three or four places equipped to deal with small parties of visitors . |
| 14 | A quick left turn in the direction of America took us to the Longships lighthouse , followed by a turn back towards England and St Just airfield . |
| 15 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 17 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 18 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 19 | Ambulance came — took us to the London Hospital — only just along the road … . |
| 20 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 21 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 22 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 23 | The next morning he took us to the place where the evil Sir Hugo died . |
| 24 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 25 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 26 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 27 | After lunch two mini-buses took us to the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra and the Dublin deaf were overcome by the beauty of our countryside . |
| 28 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 29 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 30 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |