Example sentences of "they took [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 2 | They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’ |
| 3 | — His great-grandad lived next door to me for years , before they took him away to that home . |
| 4 | They took him away in a car to a secluded house in the Swiss alps . |
| 5 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 7 | They took him back to his own house and shut him upstairs while they sat below and deliberated what to do with him . |
| 8 | Exactly , and as they took him back to his room , not his cell , but his room , he turned to my , my mate who was with me and said er , I do n't want an operation I like having sex with little girls , he said now I 've got two little girls and I had to turn and walk away |
| 9 | Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation … |
| 10 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 11 | They took them out of the war yes because er the allies dropped these two bombs on these two Japanese cities |
| 12 | On the night before they took them out to be shot . |
| 13 | ‘ They took them back to the barracks in the Bazaar . |
| 14 | And they took me on in nineteen thirty six to help them you see . |
| 15 | They took me over to Cheapside and I was remanded in custody . |
| 16 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 17 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 18 | And they were wonderful people , they took me all over Durban . |
| 19 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 20 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 22 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 23 | Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it . |
| 24 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 25 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 26 | They took me back to Edinburgh , and people in the streets screamed at me : ‘ Kill the woman ! |
| 27 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 28 | They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind . |
| 29 | ‘ That night , they took me out into the desert and beat me . |
| 30 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |