Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [pron] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took him to a nearby café . |
| 2 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 3 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 4 | ‘ I took her to a little friend 's birthday party yesterday — life when you 're almost two has to go on as near to normal as we can make it . |
| 5 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 6 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 7 | She took me to a corner where a miniature chest stood on a table . |
| 8 | We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal . |
| 9 | We took him to a Chinese restaurant where they serve those drinks in coconuts — they 're quite strong and he does n't really drink , but we made him have one anyway , and he quite enjoyed it . |
| 10 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 11 | they took him to a police station where they miraculously found 15g of cannabis . |
| 12 | They took him to a shop and |
| 13 | They took them to a school of their choice some distance away , which could not , according to Local Authority policy , accept them . |
| 14 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 15 | Then they took me to a room where I was in solitary confinement . |
| 16 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 17 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 18 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 19 | He took him to a room in which was H. W. Hall , a solicitor . |
| 20 | He took him to a room behind the stage . |
| 21 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 22 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 23 | He took her to a club in Camden Town , a dark cellar where a jazz quintet played hypnotic Chicago blues and where the pale faces of London 's night people were lit by candles as they drank , smoked and laughed . |
| 24 | He took her to a tiny cafe in the industrial suburbs , an area of Paris that Isobel had never visited before . |
| 25 | He took her to a graveyard high on the slope behind the house . |
| 26 | He took her to a Forest Hill bedsit where he repeatedly raped her before releasing her . |
| 27 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 28 | For instance , he took her to a newly opened Greek restaurant , and introduced her to the delights of something called Baklava Syrien , which , having a sweet tooth , she very much enjoyed — although he managed simultaneously to annoy her by various highly irritating remarks about the way in which West Indians eat Kit-e-Kat , and by a joke about a man in a Chinese restaurant who found a finger in his Chinese soup . |
| 29 | He took her to a small farmhouse , and hid her in the bam . |
| 30 | He took her to a rather smart Italian restaurant full of intimate little tables far too close together for private conversation . |