Example sentences of "[adv] took him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes her beauty so took him by surprise , that he lost the thread of speech . |
| 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 | When he learnt that Bobby played the trumpet , he promptly took him to Stravinsky 's Petrushka and shared with him his passion for Sibelius and Bach as well as his fanatical admiration for Fats Waller , Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace . |
| 6 | The future was always a foreign country , always took him by surprise and was always challenged and met with a charge . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , Sunley is now on to his sixth manager , after starting his career at Middlesbrough under Bruce Rioch , who also took him to Millwall . |
| 8 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 9 | Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six . |
| 10 | What Morrissey still ca n't come to terms with is that now , for some strange reason , hordes of people profess to have fallen in love with him and previous to the band , he often states , no girl ever even took him into consideration . |
| 11 | But she then took him through the house pointing out china and furniture which he was interested in . |
| 12 | Car joy : Prince Charles presented a £54,000 hi-tech van to disabled man who then took him for a spin . |
| 13 | Born in 1948 , his career in the Soprintendenze began in Genoa and then took him to Rome where he was Director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini for three years . |
| 14 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | While much of the journeying was in Britain and Ireland , his half-dozen ventures abroad took him across much of continental Europe . |
| 17 | His mother once again took him to the prefectural hospital , not to the university hospital . |
| 18 | ‘ Now Johnny 's dying , and I never took him to Disneyland . ’ |