Example sentences of "[adv] took [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to go was a rather nervous Richard Crout with Jesse , a 1908 steam roller , belching out smoke he gingerly took to the roads . |
| 2 | The leaders of Eastern religions which had resisted the appearance of the railway , as in China and Japan , soon found that their co-religionists swiftly took to the rails to visit temples and shrines . |
| 3 | This was the part that Wilson largely took in the final , becoming a ‘ great spoiler ’ , as the Examiner put it . |
| 4 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |
| 5 | Bernard soon took against the idea and Laura fought doggedly to keep them , believing that her loyal customers were entitled to receive the benefits from any advantage like this . |
| 6 | When I finally took off the overtrousers , the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry , which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction . |
| 7 | I was pleased that he at once took to the idea . |
| 8 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 9 | Wg Cdr ( " Mad Doc " ) Winfield DFC , AFC — and no braver man ever took to the air , after completing 127 sorties — was found dead by his wife halfway up the stairs with a tray of morning tea , which might be a sort of warning to those of you and there may be a few who do get up to make your wives cups of tea . |
| 10 | Not one returned , and the Shirley family was left to look after the squadron mascot Darkie , a little dog who usually took to the air as well . |
| 11 | Now , he picked up Faye 's chart and quickly took in the plotted lines on a graph that were her blood-pressure and blood glucose measurements . |
| 12 | So her relief at the friendly , bantering tone sent her spirits sky-high , and at first she hardly took in the news he was giving her . |
| 13 | Theda hardly took in the words . |
| 14 | Although completed and ready to fly in October 1945 ( when short hops are reported to have been undertaken ) it did not officially fly until April 24 , 1946 on which date the other Soviet jet , the MiG–9 , also took to the air shortly before the Yak . |
| 15 | Israeli Arabs also took to the streets , and riots were reported in Nazareth , Israel 's largest Arab town . |
| 16 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |
| 17 | Marx also took from the classical economists the idea that rates of profit are bound to fall in the long term . |
| 18 | Yet within two years three parties illegally took to the field in opposition to Tsarism , demonstrating the strength of feeling against the autocracy . |
| 19 | They even took to the river . |
| 20 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 21 | Ossie Ardiles then took to the witness stand and admitted he had paid Swindon Town players a tax-free bonus after taking over as manager from Lou Macari . |
| 22 | The sleigh was piled high with presents donated by the Variety Club , which he and the Princess then took into the hospital and distributed to the children inside . |
| 23 | She found her own register in its usual place and then took from the ‘ Tuesday ’ pigeonhole the one marked ‘ Line Drawing and Water-colour ’ . |
| 24 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 25 | Four years and a name change later she once again took to the road as a solo performer . |
| 26 | Alice again took in the collapsed look of her , the passivity , and thought : What is the use , she 's one of those who … |
| 27 | During this time people briefly took to the streets in Lusaka and in the provincial towns of Mufulira , Ndola and Kitwe , before Luchembe was arrested by troops loyal to the government . |
| 28 | Admittedly , our present team of four would manage this programme only with reinforcement from some daily workers ; my staff plan therefore took in the services of a gardener , to visit once a week , twice in the summer , and two cleaners , each to visit twice a week . |
| 29 | Proposals for the training of diplomats therefore took in the main two forms . |
| 30 | Best forgetting that and all the half bottles in the backs of cars but , you know , I never took to the drink in adult life . ’ |