Example sentences of "[pron] took to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 2 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |
| 3 | ‘ I took to the vice ports in revenge . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , that money that I took to the taxi rank this morning . |
| 5 | ACTRESS Kathleen Turner stole the show when she took to the stage at a late-night bar for a karaoke session . |
| 6 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 7 | She took to the good life like a duck to water , ’ she added wryly . |
| 8 | She took to the skies with Sqn Ldr Dick Coles from RAF Dishforth and raised £200 for meningitis research . |
| 9 | The penalty comes after an invasion involving around 2,000 Birmingham supporters , who took to the pitch at the end of the Third Division game against Stoke . |
| 10 | Like many East Anglians who took to the sea he first served on the farm : |
| 11 | Those coal heavers , weavers , sailors , labourers and others of the lower orders who took to the streets in 1768 were to a large extent caught up in a political moment which coincided with longer-running economic grievances . |
| 12 | It was not something you took to the doctor — until Valium and Librium arrived on the market . |
| 13 | So , after some basic instruction in the grounds of Ruthin Castle , we took to the hills in a variety of 4WD vehicles . |
| 14 | But all that was put to one side when the protests started and we took to the streets . |
| 15 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 16 | The first one took to the water in 1959 . |
| 17 | From a half doze Jane saw Christopher and Francis emerge from the barn , go to the kitchen and re-emerge with the sack of flour , which they took to the barn ! |
| 18 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 19 | After killing a number of traders and native policemen , and an elder who had counselled prudence , they took to the hills , where a detachment of the King 's African Rifles surprised them and drove them out , with about twenty casualties . |
| 20 | The mortally wounded Aenarion clambered into the saddle of his dying dragon and they took to the air on their last flight . |
| 21 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 22 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 23 | George was pushed from her mind as they took to the tiny space allocated for dancing in Margaret Forrester 's front room . |
| 24 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
| 25 | So together with the fire brigade , they took to the water to steer them onto safer land . |
| 26 | They took to the boxes immediately . |
| 27 | Realising the far greater financial potential of a life on the road , he took to the moor with resounding success . |
| 28 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 29 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 30 | First to the lens was BRETT ANDERSON , and with his unfeasibly long arms he took to the shape perfectly . |