Example sentences of "he took [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took himself to the call-box in his lodgings night after night , but whether he was sloshed or sober there was no way of finding the nerve to dial . |
| 2 | He took him to a room in which was H. W. Hall , a solicitor . |
| 3 | He took him to a room behind the stage . |
| 4 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 5 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 6 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 7 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 8 | He took them to the nearest streetlamp to read the addresses . |
| 9 | Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill . |
| 10 | He took her to every room in the house and with a cool economy of speech explained the merits of the installation , pointing out its adaptability and demonstrating its efficacy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He took her to a tiny cafe in the industrial suburbs , an area of Paris that Isobel had never visited before . |
| 13 | He took her to a graveyard high on the slope behind the house . |
| 14 | He took her to a Forest Hill bedsit where he repeatedly raped her before releasing her . |
| 15 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He took her to a small farmhouse , and hid her in the bam . |
| 18 | He took her to a rather smart Italian restaurant full of intimate little tables far too close together for private conversation . |
| 19 | He took her to a cool shady room with a large bed , the venetian blinds closed , thin silky curtains from floor to ceiling and a fan swishing gently . |
| 20 | He took her to a house in Gloucester but gave himself up after police surrounded the property . |
| 21 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 22 | He took her to the balustrade . |
| 23 | He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel . |
| 24 | He took her to the airport nurse , who could find nothing wrong with her but agreed that she might be suffering from jet lag and needed only to rest . |
| 25 | He took her to the deserted camp laundry : a large hut with a great copper the size of a steam-engine , a line of deep sinks , and rows of drying lines . |
| 26 | He took her to the greenhouses . |
| 27 | He took her to the foot of the elaborately draped four-poster and opened an iron-banded chest . |
| 28 | He took her to the exit slowly |
| 29 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 30 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |