Example sentences of "[adj] took [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The XP–59A first took to the air on October 1 , 1942 . |
| 2 | For a time , when she first took to the seclusion of the Lodge , days had been wasted in a sort of restless grief , but it had passed , resentment fell away , and gradually he found his way back into his own strength . |
| 3 | This meant that when some ancient sharks first took to the sea bottom , there was an easy smooth progression to the skate shape , with each intermediate being a slight improvement , given bottom conditions , over its slightly less flattened predecessor . |
| 4 | Central News South first took to the air for the first time on January 9th 1989 . |
| 5 | It 's now forty years since the Oxford Gang Show first took to the stage . |
| 6 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January . |
| 7 | A flight of alarmed mallards rose and I counted 25 before a second similar flock and then a third took to the air . |