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Example sentences for "took them"

  • As I took them out I felt ready to drop them, but I did not, for I flung them and my net and basket as far up the shore as I could, and held out my hands to Bigley, who was looking out at me from the grotto-like place.

  • His majesty approved of the proposal, and I took them up one by one, with the proper officers to exercise them.

  • So he took them home, and was very kind to them, and brought up the boy till he was a young man.

  • It is true we plundered them a little when we took them, and I will even confess that it is their purse that Monsieur du Vallon and I draw on in our nightly play.

  • I thought they might be useful, so I took them.

  • He took them up, just as he formerly used to take up the stones from the road, and threw them out of the house.

  • Of course I took them, and mighty glad to get them.

  • Then I didn't see them at all for so long that I took them up again, and planted them half-way between.

  • From my head removed the silver, Took them to the mountain storehouse; In the chest with care I laid them, There until this day I left them, And since then I have not seen them.

  • With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.

  • He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.

  • Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

  • And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.

  • And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters.

  • The sudden apparition of three men, with drawn cutlasses, took them so completely by surprise that they were captured without any attempt at resistance; and were, like the rest, bound and gagged.

  • They thought, of course, it was their own officers returning; so we took them by surprise, and captured them pretty easily.

  • When he had done them to his satisfaction, he took them upstairs.

  • Got one Hospital Crib and 6 at Bermondsey, took them to Barthol{w}.

  • Went to the Big gates, got 4 Took them to Barthol{w}.

  • He took them to the city and lodged them in his own house, giving them an apartment where they could celebrate mass.

  • He did not flee from the enemy, as he took them to be Spaniards and friends; for it is unusual for ships from England to come here.

  • They bought all the logs which had been collected by the inhabitants along the river, took them to the city, where they were sorted out according to private marks, and sold to their respective owners at an excellent profit.

  • It took them only a few minutes to reach the shore, and they surprised Mrs. Britt as she was lighting the kitchen fire.

  • It took them but a few minutes to return to the grand-stand where Parson Dan was waiting to receive them.

  • He took them, and picked out a white envelope with no writing on it.

  • So he took them up into his golden house and told his mother alan to give them some clothes.

  • They said that Ibago wa Agimlang met them when he came from war and he took them to his party so they knew that they were their son and daughter for they chewed betel-nut.

  • When they had all drank they took them up to the town.

  • So he took them back to Kaodanan and they made balaua in order to find out who was the father of the boy.

  • Good afternoon," they said, and Alokotán took them upstairs; so they went up.

  • I took them to the department store to which the Manheimer Brothers catered, but the buyer of the cloak department would not so much as let me untie my bundle.

  • Deals were being closed, and poor men were making thousands of dollars in less time than it took them to drink the glass of tea or the plate of sorrel soup over which the transaction took place.

  • Natural as the suggestion was, it took them by surprise.

  • The more they fulminated and fumed and bullied Miss Tevkin the firmer grew my conviction that they had scarcely read the books for which they seemed to be ready to lay down their lives Miss Tevkin, however, took them seriously.

  • Then We took them by surprise while they did not perceive.

  • If He took them to task (now) for what they earn, He would hasten on the doom for them; but theirs is an appointed term from which they will find no escape.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another word; had brought from the; her sisters; need scarcely; took advantage; took another; took bread; took careful; took charge; took command; took good; took him; took his; took leave; took much; took notice; took out; took over; took passage; took pity; took position; took refuge; took the; took their; took upon; whom thou hast given