Example sentences of "[that] took [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 2 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 3 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 4 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 5 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 6 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 7 | My eyes filled with tears , that took me as unexpectedly as one of the Corporal 's ambushes . |
| 8 | Well , that took me by surprise , I can tell you : my eyes were watering but my loins were telling me to persevere with this fiery female . |
| 9 | Very possibly , and a remark of Michael Carson 's explaining what it was that took him abroad in search of the other shows how the celebration may share the stereotypes of the demonized : |
| 10 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 11 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 12 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 13 | It was a last-minute dash that took him five and a half hours to reach Heathrow Airport . |
| 14 | Le Tissier went on a run that took him ghosting past two defenders only for Baker to save . |
| 15 | ‘ Where he fell — they were all body shots that took him . ’ |
| 16 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 17 | It was n't only the knowledge that , being such a soul , Gentle would be welcomed at the Klein residence , that took him there . |
| 18 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 19 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 20 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 21 | I was the one that took him from her and it was n't a good scene . |
| 22 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 23 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 24 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 25 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 26 | He started in plastics , working from Coventry and Spondon , and joined Courtaulds Central Trading in the mid-1970s — a move that took him to East Germany , Yugoslavia and eventually the whole of Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 28 | The squad ( pictured here ) that took them to Murrayfield in pole position among the four qualifiers was : J. Barnard , B. Buitendag , J. Deysel , P. Du Plooy , G. Mans ( captain ) E. Meyer , H. Snyman , A. Van Rooyen , P. Von Wielligh and W. Wentzel . |
| 29 | Once cast off from the submarine they began the steady rhythm of paddling that took them along their course with a mile and a half to the beach , their sweat-raising stroke giving 3 knots — equal to a steady walking pace . |
| 30 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |