Example sentences of "to take [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many other operas seem to take naturally to water . |
| 2 | Stolid , neat and terrifically inoffensive , these were the sort of highlights you 'd be happy to take home to mother . |
| 3 | I just came to see if the coffee was ready for me to take up to Papa . |
| 4 | They 're for Dee to take back to University |
| 5 | Pupils might make stone rubbings to take back to school . |
| 6 | What I do want is some wine to take back to school tomorrow , oh er I mean |
| 7 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Just as the dead might be said to take readily to flight , so the living found their spirits lifted . |
| 9 | The loss of his Prime Minister 's salary was a serious matter , and he refused to take either to journalism or the City , as he had criticized Lloyd George for one and Sir Robert Horne for the other . |