Example sentences of "he took [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 2 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 3 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 4 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 5 | He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises . |
| 6 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 7 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 8 | He took her to a tiny cafe in the industrial suburbs , an area of Paris that Isobel had never visited before . |
| 9 | He took her to a small farmhouse , and hid her in the bam . |
| 10 | He took her to a cool shady room with a large bed , the venetian blinds closed , thin silky curtains from floor to ceiling and a fan swishing gently . |
| 11 | He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel . |
| 12 | After threatening Miss Slater with a knife , he took her to the converted pub in Newark , Nottinghamshire , he used as a workshop for his tool repair business . |
| 13 | He took her to the deserted camp laundry : a large hut with a great copper the size of a steam-engine , a line of deep sinks , and rows of drying lines . |
| 14 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 15 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 16 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 17 | He took her into a little recess aside |
| 18 | He took her into the next room , performed a little pantomime of swivelling hips and stormy eyes , then wrapped his arm around her . |
| 19 | On the second evening of my visit he took me to a literary party given by the Chicago Tribune in honour of Carl Sandberg in the sumptuous lounge of a club called ‘ The 333 ’ ( at 333 Michigan Boulevard ) . |
| 20 | ‘ He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him . |
| 21 | He took me to a waiting Jaguar equipped with air conditioning , stereo system , and a very pretty girl : ‘ at my disposal for the rest of my stay ’ . |
| 22 | Flustered , she handed him her case and he took it with a strong hand , his face hard . |
| 23 | Then he took it with a brief word of thanks . |
| 24 | He took it with a courteous ‘ Thank you very much ’ . |
| 25 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 26 | He took it as a personal insult . |
| 27 | He took it as a personal reproach . |
| 28 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 29 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |
| 30 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |