Example sentences of "[noun pl] took [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots . |
| 2 | ‘ And you , ’ his eyes took in the other four , ‘ to your tasks , if you please . ’ |
| 3 | Then , as his sharp eyes took in the unnatural stiffness of the other two and their frozen expressions , he groaned with mock-consternation . |
| 4 | The following Sunday a group of pest control technicians took to the field , all kitted out ready to ‘ show Rank Hovis how to play football ’ . |
| 5 | Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work . |
| 6 | For those within ‘ the Movement ’ , a week 's cycling holiday using CTC accommodation was possible for £3 10/ all in ; organized excursions took in the Scottish Isles , the West of Ireland , and the Black Forest in Germany . |
| 7 | On Saturday 28 September , some of the hardiest souls in London and the surrounding environs took to the footpaths of Battersea Park , got cold(s) , wet , mentally tested and later drunk as they contested the 1991 Amnesty Sponsored Quiz Quest . |
| 8 | Thirteen people were killed and 1-500 injured as celebrating Filipinos took to the streets , and a further five were killed and 100 arrested in Sydney . |
| 9 | The young urban loyalists took to the streets : |
| 10 | With limbs beginning to tire only eight boats took to the water for the final two-lap race . |
| 11 | In Arab East Jerusalem and other parts of the Israeli-occupied territories , Palestinians took to the streets in celebration . |
| 12 | Armed civilians , Islamic militiamen and pro-Khomeini troops took to the streets to take control of other military installations . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , the noise bellowing around Ibrox when the teams took to the pitch was an octave or two higher than normal . |
| 14 | So this is what he set out to do and , in 1986 , the Halifax Mystery Plays took to the road . |
| 15 | Stirred up by this incident , nationalists took to the streets in several parts of Yerevan , setting up road blocks . |
| 16 | It also commanded the route the crusaders took to the East . |
| 17 | Publicly there were muzzy plans for when the city populations took to the skies en masse . |
| 18 | But at home Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , the parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , made it clear that the power struggle was far from over , and outside the parliament , thousands of protesters took to the streets both for and against the president . |
| 19 | When the rioters took to the streets , when the fires in Bristol lit the night sky , when Attwood 's meeting at Birmingham resolved to pay no taxes , when , in short , revolution threatened , it was not because the Whig Government wanted reform as proposed in their Bill . |
| 20 | Local authorities took to the fashion of developing management and political processes , and institutional structures , which would make them more able to plan , control and review their activities , commensurate with their resources . |
| 21 | Fewer flyers took after the cold killer , von Richthofen , than after Boelcke and Navarre , who both hated killing and aimed whenever possible for the engine instead of the pilot . |
| 22 | More recently , junior hospital doctors took to the streets over their appallingly long hours , up to ninety in a single week . |
| 23 | Youths took to the streets in protest . |
| 24 | As news of the shooting spread through the city , bands of Hispanic youths took to the streets in the early evening . |
| 25 | There 's one firm that had about nine buses took off the road try trying to cut corners as well . |
| 26 | On May 6 thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Lomé calling for the resignation of President Gnassingbe Eyadema and Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , who , they claimed , were " accomplices " in the attack . |
| 27 | With confirmation of his survival thousands of Palestinians in the occupied territories took to the streets , chanting " Arafat is alive " . |
| 28 | Clockwise Young lovers took to the lifeboats , not to save their souls but to pursue their romance in private ; passenger comforts included beauty salons : a ‘ young thing ’ takes a Turkish bath on the Berengaria , 1923 ; tiny tots also tasted luxury aboard : a menu for a children 's tea party , 1933 ; as this menu from the Normandie shows , the cuisine on board these liners was a gourmet 's delight . |
| 29 | He suggested that this occurred because some of the early mammals took to the trees , and in that new environment smell became less important , while vision and neuromuscular control , and particularly the co-ordination of the two , became more important . |
| 30 | Many of their posters from the early 1900s through to the 1920s show young women skiing , skating and tobogganing , and women took to the slopes of Grindelwald , St Moritz and those of less fashionable and more affordable resorts , with a zest which matched the mountain air , while their American sisters slid , swooped and glided down the slopes and across the ponds of Vermont or the Rockies . |