Example sentences of "took them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 2 | The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent , where the pitch was some way from international standard . |
| 3 | He took them to the nearest streetlamp to read the addresses . |
| 4 | While the aircraft was unloaded the crew was spirited away by car through the back roads of the airport by a civilian with a machine-gun , who took them to the old Sheraton Hotel and offered them cakes and coffee . |
| 5 | Both Parker and Spurgeon were able to maintain elegant homes and a carriage and pair which took them to their respective chapels . |
| 6 | He and the two girls , Sara and Christina , were rescued by a passing taxi , which took them to Guy 's . |
| 7 | Their journey took them to Munich , where Mozart and Nannerl played again for Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria and Clemens , Duke of Bavaria . |
| 8 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 9 | A magazine was preparing a cover story on the emergence of Jack the star and in their background investigations , which took them to Neptune in search of old chums , discovered the secret that Mud had kept from him since birth . |
| 10 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 11 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 12 | Thus the ‘ Originals ’ were in a sense on probation from the moment they clambered into the lorries which took them to Kabrit . |
| 13 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 14 | They took them to a school of their choice some distance away , which could not , according to Local Authority policy , accept them . |
| 15 | He quietly took them to the back of the house before they left . |
| 16 | But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals . |
| 17 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
| 18 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 19 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 20 | Yes , he spent money on girls , took them to good restaurants , would buy them silk-stockings too . |
| 21 | Later on we took them to Woody Swinbank 's at Mickleton , but that 's been turned into a pub now , appropriately called the Blacksmith 's Arms . |
| 22 | Children were carried shoulder-high to the road , where a bus took them to a seafront hotel . |
| 23 | After the church ceremony , a horse and carriage waited for the newlyweds and took them to their reception , where an entertainer was waiting in the wings to take the children off the adults ' hands . |
| 24 | The tablets she found later and took them to the Social Work Department to be sent to the child . |
| 25 | The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 28 | His team , he admits , got away with murder in this match before goals from Paul Showler and Mark Carter took them to the top . |
| 29 | Auer did , in fact , produce such fine raised patterns that Austrian government representatives found the resemblance so close ‘ that they took them to be real lace , until , by touching and closely examining them , they convinced themselves that they were the production of the printing press ’ . |
| 30 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |