Example sentences of "[conj] took i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th th there 's a place a coffee , tea room place called Betty 's in York , there where took me in where you have the head waiter take you to your table , for coffee , you know wonderful ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He and took me on a short sight-seeing trip to the Qutab Minar . |
| 8 | At eleven she sent Gwenellen to take over temporarily and took me into the duty-room . |
| 9 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |
| 10 | She urged me to go with her to concerts and the theatre , and took me as her guest to the Edinburgh International Club which , owing to the presence of so many servicemen from overseas , was then an active and flourishing society . |
| 11 | And took me over there and my , I had to have argument with my mum . |
| 12 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 13 | Afterwards Aunt Louise came and took me to her room , leading the way up a strange little creaking curving staircase . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope . |
| 17 | Suddenly the official got up and took me to the lift . |
| 18 | But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ They informed me I was under arrest and took me to Paddington Green police station . |
| 20 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 21 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 22 | He came running out and took me by the sleeve in the darkness . |
| 23 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 24 | Mrs Donnan came and took me by the hand . |
| 25 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |