He jumped out of bed in the weird light, took the letter, pulled out the flimsy sheet, shook the envelope -- searched it.
He remembered his position, arose, shivered, took the spade, and again went out.
Bathsheba, a small yawn upon her mouth, took the pen, and with off-hand serenity directed the missive to Boldwood.
I took the opportunity of bringing this diary right up to the moment.
I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the professor came to the window and called me in.
He took the key, opened the vault, and again courteously motioned me to precede.
I got her luggage, which included a typewriter, and we took the Underground to Fenchurch Street, after I had sent a wire to my housekeeper to have a sitting room and a bedroom prepared at once for Mrs. Harker.
I took the glass; and the shores leaped nearer, and I saw the tangle of the woods and the breach of the surf, and the brown roofs and the black insides of houses peeped among the trees.
I suppose it might be eight o’clock when I took the road, laden like a donkey.
We took the latter, and followed it more than a mile, turned a rocky corner, and came in sight of a handsome new hotel.
The music of a donkey awoke us early in the morning, and we rose up and made ready for a pretty formidable walk--to Italy; but the road was so level that we took the train.
She waited for him, took the flowers, and they went out together, he talking, she feeling dead.
So he took the sixpence, put the purse carefully back, and went out.
He took the book, to Paul's immense chagrin, and began the copying himself.
I took the watch, and Jim he laid down and snored away; and by and by the storm let up for good and all; and the first cabin-light that showed I rousted him out, and we slid the raft into hiding quarters for the day.
I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug.
It took the seven of us to drag him on board, and then I cleaned and skinned him as Tom had taught me, and showed Jean how to put the caul fat and liver in rows on a skewer and wrap it in the bear's handkerchief and roast it before the fire.
He took the belt, and flung it away over the heads of those around him.
I took the place of servant here yesterday," said the Prince.
When he had gone a little way out to sea he took the mill on deck.
For he could not carry his bride through the air, so he took the Shoes of Swiftness, and the Cap of Darkness, and the Sword of Sharpness up to a lonely place in the hills.
Then he took the skulls, placed them on his lathe, and turned them till they were round.
Agnes, with the widow's entire approval, took the money to the Children's Hospital; and spent it in adding to the number of the beds.
Against Lady Montbarry's advice, he took the opportunity of renewing his addresses to Agnes.
He took the chair to which she had pointed, with a strange contradiction of expression in his face: the tears were in his eyes, while the brows above were knit close in an angry frown.
Any young girl can imagine Amy's state of mind when she 'took the stage' that night, leaning on Laurie's arm.
Well, he was a great man, and when he couldn't have one sister he took the other, and was happy.
Amy's conscience preached her a little sermon from that text, then and there, and she did what many of us do not always do, took the sermon to heart, and straightway put it in practice.
Two years have passed since you took the hand of the Outlaw of Torn in friendship, and now he comes to sue for another favor.
And just as he did so a great wave raised itself up behind him, took the wreckage, tossed it high in a swelter of foam, and passed on.
Wonderingly, I took the bottle; dipped it down into the Pool.
And when the dragon and his mother had put out their lights, he took the pigs' trough and filled it with earth, and placed it in his bed, and covered it with clothes.
With these words the boy rose, took the cake, and went home, while the beardless one remained behind to swallow his disappointment.
So I took the cake as well as the holy water, and was flying back with them over the sea, when there fell a great rain, and the sea was swollen, and swept away my millet cake.
And besides these he took the milk of seventy-seven sheep, and carried it home to his old mother, that she might bathe in it and grow young again.
The man thanked him warmly, took the sack, and set out.
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
We took the 45 and a bunch of shells and slipped off out into the pasture to shoot something.
Then in the split-second it took the car to demolish the end of the garage, Albert seized the opportunity to shoot out from under one side of the car, behind the front wheel and before the back wheel got him.
I took the slip--my third one--and went back to work at the same job at Vega, through the same office where they kept my first slip when I quit and went back to Texas.
Next day he took the horse to the cow sale and auctioned him off.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "took the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
