Example sentences of "[pron] took [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 2 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 3 | I took him out into the garden . |
| 4 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 5 | X-rays were taken there and then and resisting the temptation to open the package , I took them back to the consulting room . |
| 6 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 7 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
| 8 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 9 | Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation . |
| 10 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 11 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 12 | For example — I feel disgusted and ashamed — I took my little girl down to my mum 's and I swear to God I remember dressing her — it was winter — but when she got to my mum 's house I took her out of the buggy and all she had on was her nappy and her socks and a blanket wrapped round her . |
| 13 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |
| 14 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 15 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 16 | I took it down to the Spar shop as well . |
| 17 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 18 | I took it out of the bed and stared at it , then I put it on the table beside my bed and put out the lights . |
| 19 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |
| 20 | Yes , I took it out of the bushes get . |
| 21 | I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the . |
| 22 | ‘ They knew I had insurance because I took it out with the TSB when they gave me the loan . ’ |
| 23 | And I took it out in the spring and put it in the garden and then it revived and came on nice . |
| 24 | Jack , Willy , Rex and I took ourselves off to the Lamb Inn for lunch and put away as much ale and steak and kidney pie as four young men could desire . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 27 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 28 | After the train , we went on Mr Ross 's boat , which took us out to the island . |
| 29 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 30 | She took them in during the day and I went off to Bartle 's — that 's the engineering factory in Brick Lane . |