Example sentences of "[adv] take to 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 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 4 | But I do remember Sterland giving an interview before the final saying that he was basically taken to the cleaners by the boy . |
| 5 | our final fling tonight takes to the sport of judo … this weekend Oxford staged the all England Championships . |
| 6 | By early 1981 Dr Salama had already taken to the new station over half the NTV Jos staff , chiefly men and women he had originally recruited . |
| 7 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 8 | Men no longer take to the barricades to redress wrongs . |
| 9 | I was pleased that he at once took to the idea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 13 | The pupil also takes to the prospective employer or the university admissions tutor the raw scores of exam results . |
| 14 | Mr Clinton will also take to the road , from New York to the West Coast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Israeli Arabs also took to the streets , and riots were reported in Nazareth , Israel 's largest Arab town . |
| 17 | Yet within two years three parties illegally took to the field in opposition to Tsarism , demonstrating the strength of feeling against the autocracy . |
| 18 | The accident happened at about 4pm and the driver and passenger were both taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Gateshead for treatment . |
| 19 | The remains were later taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for a full post mortem . |
| 20 | Great exception was now also taken to the mystical aspect of the Hitler image . |
| 21 | The amphibians have also taken to the habit . |
| 22 | A four year old child was taken to the Horton General Hospital in the town , with cuts to his face ; three other people were also taken to the hospital , one with a suspected broken pelvis . |
| 23 | It had never really taken to the concept of death . |
| 24 | Little wonder Roy Hattersley has now taken to the pages of the London Evening Standard , complaining that the glitz and the glamour hid the message — as though , somehow , he had been a disinterested spectator in the affair . |
| 25 | This is a caricature , to be sure , but it illustrates the attitude managers often take to the unexpected : ‘ It should not have happened . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You tell him , ’ is the refrain they often take to the local schools , in admission that authority and control has been exhausted at home . |
| 27 | They even took to the river . |
| 28 | At the castle , Corbett was immediately taken to the Bishop 's chamber . |
| 29 | Birds , bats and gliding mammals simply take to the air . |
| 30 | 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 … |