Example sentences of "[pers pn] have take to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 2 | It is a roundabout route we have to take to the mountain , avoiding the horseshoe of high peaks that arc out from it . |
| 3 | At first they had taken to the Underground because it was warm , later for other reasons . |
| 4 | Cos he he When he liked he could speak very well but how he 'd taken to the road I do n't know , but he was well known er er as the blind fiddler . |
| 5 | Seeing me , it had taken to the air , clumsily at first , then with Increasing speed as its great wings beat it downriver to Rash . |
| 6 | As for Prince Charles , having declared that he kept an open mind on the subject of complementary medicine , he gave a dissertation on the recent allegations that he had taken to the occult : ‘ I do not play with a Ouija board . |
| 7 | A judge was divorced by his wife because he had taken to the idea that she was possessed by the devil and gave her a thump or two to drive Satan out . |
| 8 | Harvey had always had a mania for showers and baths and he had taken to the sauna ritual with great enthusiasm . |