Example sentences of "took [pers pn] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job . |
| 2 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 3 | ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out . |
| 4 | My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 6 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 7 | The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room . |
| 8 | Mrs Beavis took her up to the first-floor landing . |
| 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 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 12 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 13 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 14 | I put the matter in the hands of a local lawyer , and he took it up with the magistrates . |
| 15 | We took it up with the Education Officer who asked for information about the family . |
| 16 | Sixteen of us flew into Delhi — and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains . |