Example sentences of "[adv] take him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse .
2 It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’
3 Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest .
4 Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean .
5 On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing .
6 But she then took him through the house pointing out china and furniture which he was interested in .
7 She even detached herself composedly when he was within , to have both hands free to drop the heavy wooden bar into place and fasten the door , and then took him by the hand again to bring him safely to the door of the undercroft , across the uneven stones .
8 Instead , 18-year-old Lee 's parents had to drive from their Middlesbrough home to collect him and then take him to the town 's General Hospital , where the next day doctors gave him just six hours to live .
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