Example sentences of "took [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some tricky aid above the pegs , a section of typically marvellous free climbing , on pockets and depressions with target features reasonably near at hand , took me to the edge of the abyss — a blank wall with a piece of tat weaving , taunting , 40 feet above . |
| 2 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 3 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 4 | They took me to West End Central and , instead of telling them what had really happened , I gave them a story . |
| 5 | He took me to a pie and mash shop on Hammersmith Broadway . |
| 6 | My eldest brother , who is quite ‘ westernised ’ , took me to college . |
| 7 | Another was hopeful of joining Ford — he took me to task for this magazine 's criticisms of the new Escort . |
| 8 | Then they took me to a room where I was in solitary confinement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the place he took me to after lunch , the Colegio Ponce de Leon , where I was supposed to have rooms , was a rather stark student hostel , and my little room was very small , with just a narrow bed , a table and a chair . |
| 11 | Afterwards Aunt Louise came and took me to her room , leading the way up a strange little creaking curving staircase . |
| 12 | She took me to a corner where a miniature chest stood on a table . |
| 13 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
| 14 | She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday . |
| 15 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 16 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 17 | But every year , and often more than once , he made the pilgrimage to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and on one of those visits ( I can not have been more than eight years old ) took me to Thame and showed me his name on the board as head boy . |
| 18 | That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann . |
| 19 | Sarge — his real name was Paul Sargeant — was an Australian who had modelled himself on John Belushi and disapproved of good language ( he once took me to task for using the word ‘ carouse ’ ) . |
| 20 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 21 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 22 | On the second evening of my visit he took me to a literary party given by the Chicago Tribune in honour of Carl Sandberg in the sumptuous lounge of a club called ‘ The 333 ’ ( at 333 Michigan Boulevard ) . |
| 23 | There were no farewell parties for me when I left Moose Jaw , although Fred Workman took me to lunch and treated us both to a glass of ale at the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 24 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 25 | During August 1920 , my two maiden aunts , Rachel and Gertrude , my mother 's sisters , took me to Preston in Lancashire on a week 's visit to a fourth sister , Aunt Fan . |
| 26 | But he did n't live at that address and eventually he took me to his own home . |
| 27 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 28 | In the morning she took me to the station , with my luggage including the cot , put me on the train , and said ‘ Goodbye . ’ |
| 29 | I have toured France with my girlfriend in it , it took me to my brother 's wedding . |
| 30 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |