Example sentences of "took he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wölflinn was Burckhardt 's successor as professor at Basel , but his later successful career took him to Berlin , Munich and Zürich , a major art historian whose interests were primarily in the Renaissance and the Baroque . |
| 2 | I took him in and watched as he studied it . |
| 3 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 4 | The directness of my attack clearly took him aback . |
| 5 | His sudden lapse of morale took him by surprise , like a qualm in his stomach . |
| 6 | They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’ |
| 7 | She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Father has — Father has — oh , he is very ill , it took him yesterday . ’ |
| 9 | I took him into my garden . |
| 10 | Winning the French Open took him through the door , down the passage , into the street and out into the sunshine Fame . |
| 11 | It took him about 150 hours to complete , and won him a City and Guilds senior award for excellence . |
| 12 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |
| 13 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 14 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 16 | By Monday , Ben was terribly ill and , once more , we took him to our vet , who gave him an antihistamine injection . |
| 17 | I think he broke something because a big white van took him away and he returned with plaster on his arm . |
| 18 | My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness . |
| 19 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 20 | Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line . |
| 21 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 22 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 23 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 24 | Eldredge 's performance took him past Grzegorz Filipowski . |
| 25 | TV commentators often assert confidently that a try has been awarded after a tackle just short of the line because the player 's ‘ momentum ’ took him over . |
| 26 | Gyorgy Aczel , the liberal-minded ideology chief , spotted the talented regional boss and took him under his wings . |
| 27 | Other Red Cross workers saw Mr Christen standing with his hands in the air , holding in one of them an artificial limb , before the gunmen took him away . |
| 28 | His explorations took him into deserts and marshes . |
| 29 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 30 | A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) . |