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Example sentences for "took him"

  • Petty and I took him back, and I got him to go with me to his vessel and discourse it over to me, which he did very well, and then walked back together to the waterside at Redriffe, with good discourse all the way.

  • Instead he took him by the arm, lifted him up, and kissed him on the mouth.

  • Instead he took him by the arm, lifted him from the ground and kissed him on the mouth, and Tirant kissed his hand.

  • During this conversation the emperor came into the chamber, and when he saw Tirant, he took him by the hand, and they both went into a room to talk about the war.

  • We took him aboard, landed him at the gangway, and went about our work, keeping an eye upon the quarter-deck, where the captain was walking.

  • From this, we took him to be the steward of the mission, and addressing him as "Mayordomo," received a low bow and an invitation to walk into his room.

  • Before he reached the head of the stair, however, North Wind met him, took him by the hand, and hurried down and out of the house.

  • I took him in my arms, and set him on the ground.

  • The poor, anxious woman led him into his own room, sat down on his bed, took him on her lap as if he had been a baby, and cried.

  • He began at once to set things to rights, but the baby waking up, he took him, and nursed him till his mother had got the breakfast ready.

  • But the satyr still slipped from him, till at last, having penned him up into a corner, he took him.

  • Panurge somewhat vexed Friar John, and put him in the pouts; for he took him at his word while he dreamed of nothing less.

  • He took him up in his arms and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day cooked up a young kid, very tender, which the Ogress found to be wonderfully good.

  • He swam up to the plant and began to loosen its roots, but so firmly were they fixed in the mud and reeds that this took him a long time.

  • I took him to Machudi's and gave him the collar, and then he fired at me and I climbed and climbed .

  • For a moment I took him for a lion, but on reflection I was inclined to think him a very large bush-pig.

  • It broke before it reached him, but a considerable lump, to my joy, took him full in the face.

  • I took him a little aside to know when I should wait on him, and where: he told me, and that it would be best to meet at his lodgings, without being seen to walk together.

  • Swan, I took him to a house thereabouts, he telling me much of his Fanatique stories, as if he were a great zealot, when I know him to be a very rogue.

  • Post Office for life, and the benefit of two Baronets; all which do make me begin to think that he is not so much a fool as I took him to be.

  • Only, of course, we took him in the rear.

  • And offered me his large, fine hand, the which (recovering at the same time my post in the doorway, as if with some thought of resistance) I took him by doubtfully.

  • But we took him in hand, the pair of us, and brought that matter straight.

  • We will not give ear unto your words, nor believe you, for we found the lad in the wilderness, in a pit, and we took him out, and we will carry him away with us on our journey.

  • The upper part of his body was encrusted with dry boils, and to ease the itching they caused him, he used his nails, until they dropped off together with his fingertips, and he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal.

  • Mr. Pepper considered her; and his meditations, carried on while he cut his toast into bars and neatly buttered them, took him through a considerable stretch of autobiography.

  • It took him a moment to recover from the impropriety of having snored, and possibly grunted, before a young lady.

  • After dinner I took him to my study at home and at my Lord's, and gave him some books and other things against his going to Cambridge.

  • I was called on by Mr. Fossan, my fellow pupil at Cambridge, and I took him to the Swan in the Palace yard, and drank together our morning draft.

  • Took him home to dinner with me, where my brother John came to dine with me.

  • Hence I took him to the Swan and gave him his morning draft.

  • Then to Harper's where old Beard was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, but he was not at home, but afterwards I found him out at Sir H.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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