Example sentences of "[verb] take to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Poor old Dicey Riley , she has taken to the sup , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The world 's largest and most unusual hot air balloon has taken to the skies . |
| 4 | DINGHY SAILING all you need to know to take to the water |
| 5 | And if his own son has to take to the hills — ‘ Yes , well — is Alex sound , then ? ’ |
| 6 | Aircraft embracing decades of RAF endeavour had been expected to take to the skies — from Spitfires and Hurricanes to Tornados and Jaguars . |
| 7 | Thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets again today , angered by the jury 's verdict in the killing of physician and former guerrilla leader Hugo Spadafora . |
| 8 | The team members previously worked on developing the software optimising compilers for Elbrus , and it is this technology in particular that SunPro wants to take to the US . |
| 9 | Now gardening at his home in Oxfordshire is a passion but he still loves to take to the skies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And there were words of praise for the girls who 'd taken to the catwalk . |
| 12 | Ana had no trouble with her mount ; to Maggie 's surprise she seemed to be an expert horsewoman and Mitch too seemed to take to the activity like a veteran . |
| 13 | It is just as well that Plainsong seemed to take to the track on her debut in the Fillies ' Maiden she was aimed at the race because owner Peter Innes was a steward at the meeting . |
| 14 | For instance , young people on the streets but seeking to take to the road might need help to acquire a serviceable living vehicle . |
| 15 | So nobody actually goes until the bell goes , but you need to be listening Matthew because you do n't know what you 've got to take to the party yet . |
| 16 | You get one caution an and er I thought the limit was two you get t two cautions and you get took to the court . |
| 17 | Getting taken to the doctors and getting needles stuck in you erm things like um being fed cod liver oil , things like being hit for doing things which I thought were quite legitimate like pruning my mother 's geraniums and stuff like that . |
| 18 | Energetic visitors were invited to take to the dance floor and strut their stuff , quenching their thirst with a bottle of the new , macho mineral water , Thirsty Camel , afterwards ! |
| 19 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 20 | GREEN guardian angels are set to take to the streets of Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dropping out meant taking to the road , hitchhiking or biking far away from home , and the landscape became dotted with the beat replacements , the hippies . |
| 24 | On Dec. 1 Talb 's Uppsala home was raided , and the clothing seized taken to the UK for forensic tests , following court and Swedish government approval . |
| 25 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 26 | NOT only did the Kiwis get blown off the park at the Hong Kong Sevens by Fiji , but three gnarled members of their supporters club got taken to the cleaners in a local hostess bar . |
| 27 | Partly because of the lack of predators , many island birds have lost the ability to fly ; after all , flying requires enormous energy , and on islands , those that do take to the air could in theory be blown out to sea . |
| 28 | In Europe the protesters had also started taking to the streets or , more often than not , the fields and forests . |
| 29 | She seemed to have taken to the Foundling child the moment she set eyes on her , and there was no doubt in Betty 's mind that Corrie was the sole reason for her being offered the work . |
| 30 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |