Example sentences of "i take to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 2 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 3 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 4 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 5 | The issue arose when I took to Cabinet committee my proposals on railway electrification . |
| 6 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 7 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |
| 8 | A selection of the images I took to Australia in November and December appeared on the front of the Melbourne Age and on Good Morning Australia , a national TV news programme . |
| 9 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 10 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 11 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 12 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 13 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 14 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
| 15 | He gave orders in what I took to be the local dialect . |
| 16 | In particular , whereas I had fairly strong evidence that one particular set of rules , the bureaucratic format as I called it , was standard in NHS consultations and common in the American consultations on which I had data , what I took to be a further distinct mode , the ‘ charity ’ format , was used by only one of the American doctors in the study . |
| 17 | I was glad to find the original material in what I took to be splendid condition , still clearly bearing the marks of the sculptor 's chisel . |
| 18 | I took to sleeping in all my clothes in my sleeping bag , and managed to get away with not undressing for ten days . |
| 19 | ‘ I took to the vice ports in revenge . ’ |
| 20 | My fever had returned and I took to my bed . |
| 21 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 22 | I took to spending more time with my mother again , rather than shutting myself up in my caravan . |
| 23 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 24 | I took to Rakusen 's matzos and chopped liver . |
| 25 | I took to listening to Wagner , but reports in magazine articles that I drank heavily are an exaggeration . |
| 26 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 27 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 28 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 29 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 30 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |