Example sentences of "[conj] took [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 4 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 7 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 8 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 9 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 10 | With interest , that took her beyond the £55,000 offer which the police force had made in June 1991 to settle the case . |
| 11 | She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees . |
| 12 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 13 | The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that . |
| 14 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 15 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 16 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 17 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 18 | Leaving the men and Madeleine sipping Calvados and smoking , the two girls brushed the crumbs off the glossy white cloth and took themselves to the kitchen . |
| 19 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 20 | Jekyll 's servant , Poole , let him in at once and took him through the kitchen and across the back garden to the laboratory behind the house . |
| 21 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 22 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 23 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 24 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 27 | Sure enough , someone met him and took him to the adjutant of No . |
| 28 | The sailors carried him carefully on to the ship , and took him to the Captain , who said : |
| 29 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 30 | Kath snapped instructions to everyone , and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room . |