Example sentences of "took [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that occasion Themistokles carried his view ; but ( Plutarch says ) the Spartans took against him from that moment , preferring to advance Kimon instead . |
| 2 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 3 | All he took with him on his voyage was a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a 1992 sports diary with a map of the world , the court heard . |
| 4 | The young girl was called Anne-Sophie Mutter , whom Karajan took with him to Oxford for his special thank-you concert in the Sheldonian Theatre and whose career has developed formidably since 1977 . |
| 5 | Yet he took with him to Beirut his old suitcase of deeds and taxes , proof that the Abu Khadras owned their land in Palestine . |
| 6 | Architect of the drive towards ‘ People 's Television ’ , Sydney Newman took with him to the BBC his observations on the experiment , which he summed up by saying , ‘ Children of today , who make up part of our vast audience , are well informed and are capable of some pretty sophisticated judgements . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the case Maurice took with him to New York , ’ said Ursula . |
| 8 | In 1977 , he bought passage from the USSR by ‘ donating ’ to the Tretyakov all the paintings from the collections that they wanted ; the remaining ones he took with him to Greece and retirement . |
| 9 | He took with him to England Theodore 's son Alamayahu , who was sent to Rugby School and then to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst , where he fell ill and died , aged nineteen . |
| 10 | Cuthbertson became noted for his glass-plate frictional electrical machines ; a technology which he took with him from London but which he developed to a high state of perfection in Holland . |