Example sentences of "[pers pn] take us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 3 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 4 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 5 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 6 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 7 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 8 | You often hire him to take us across the river . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |
| 10 | In doing this , he takes us over the ground first , telling us what to expect , what to look for , so that when the hurricane does hit it hits us harder : |
| 11 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 12 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The next morning he took us to the place where the evil Sir Hugo died . |
| 15 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |