Example sentences of "he took [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 2 | Then , as much in guilty reaction to the receptionist 's parting look of disapproval as in the hope of ordering his thoughts , he took himself off to the bath . |
| 3 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 4 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 5 | He took her down to the bathroom , and turned on the geyser for her . |
| 6 | On their third date he took her back to his surgery and raped her . |
| 7 | ‘ And on the third date , she told us , he took her back to his surgery in Harley Street — and raped her . |
| 8 | He took her back to her flat in Putney , which was a long way , and she turned out to be keen on cocoa . |
| 9 | He took her in to dinner . |
| 10 | He took her out to a restaurant one evening , a farewell dinner , he said , as she was going to go back and live with her mother , and he gave her a lot to eat and drink and later that night came into her room and raped her . |
| 11 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 12 | And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 14 | ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’ |
| 15 | and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ? |
| 16 | As soon as we were married he took me off to Scotland , kept me there in virtual purdah , never let me out of his sight — his jealousy was manic . |
| 17 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 18 | Afterwards , when I would have preferred to stay and stare at Agnes , he took me down to King 's Wharf near the Vintry and into a small ale house which stank of carp and salt . |
| 19 | He took me back to the past and showed me the future . |
| 20 | So he took me back to his place and pulled his pants down and took out this big bundle with the works in it , like . |
| 21 | He took me back to the house and the other one was inside . |
| 22 | He took me back to the house and the other one was inside . |
| 23 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 24 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 25 | Then he took it out to the back and burnt every bit of paper in his Dad 's incinerator . |
| 26 | When the punch had cooled he took it out to the garden shed , within easy reach of Tibbles who , since her dose of chicken thallium , seemed to have improved in every conceivable way , and went upstairs to the bedroom . |
| 27 | There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock . |
| 28 | So he took it in to be looked at . |
| 29 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 30 | As it was still under guarantee , he took it back to the shop and a month later was told it had been repaired . |