Example sentences of "[verb] take to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other group of insects has taken to the colonial life on a scale that is comparable to the termites ; those with narrow waists , two pairs of transparent wings and powerful stings , the wasps , bees and ants . |
| 2 | Then yet more came and brought with them great Stones which one day they started to take to the very centre place of Callanish itself . |
| 3 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 4 | She too had taken to the new helper . |
| 5 | Private buyers have taken to the new Golf in a big way and this Volkswagen is likely to be a used car market leader for years to come . |
| 6 | Other flatworms have taken to the parasitic life and live unseen within the bodies of other animals , including man 's , and in astronomic numbers . |