Example sentences of "[noun prp] take to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Frank takes to the skies in a light aircraft , his instructor collapses from a heart attack , and Frank bounces the plane off a road , sticks his leg out , spirals from 3,000 feet to a mere 250 feet , and narrowly misses the control tower . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 3 | Cozy Powell need lose no sleep as Alan took to the drums like , well , like a Parliamentary candidate takes to drums . |
| 4 | When work for the proprietors on what was to become the famous Mason–Dixon line was complete late in 1766 , they began on the Royal Society 's behalf , at Dixon 's suggestion , to measure a degree of the meridian on the Delmarva peninsula in Maryland and to make gravity measurements with a clock sent out by the Society , the same one that Maskelyne had had in St Helena and Dixon took to the Cape in 1761 . |
| 5 | After reports that police reservists in the predominantly Serb town of Benkovac had been disarmed , by order of their Croat superiors , Serbs took to the streets there and in nearby towns . |
| 6 | On Saturday lunchtime people will be standing six and seven deep here as the crews from Oxford and Cambridge take to the Thames for the 135th University Boat Race . |
| 7 | Four wyverns from the Worlds Edge Mountains took to the air , swooping and marauding within the city while Goblin doom divers rained down causing panic and consternation . |
| 8 | It is likely that Li Peng , the prime minister , still tastes the personal gall of 1m people in Hong Kong taking to the streets after Tiananmen to call for his ejection from office . |
| 9 | The riots continued for three days , climaxing on 7 June when it was finally quelled and the half-mad leader of the Protestant Association Lord George Gordon taken to the Tower . |
| 10 | THE new University of Teesside took to the air yesterday . |
| 11 | She and Miki took to the stage again with Ministry , Miki sporting a rockerific white flying V. If I can remember correctly , Howard our manager was by this time on all fours with a bottle of tequila clutched firmly between his mitts — but this is what we pay him for . |
| 12 | Protesters in Germany took to the streets of Solingen after an arson attack by neo-Nazis that killed five Turks . |
| 13 | Clinton takes to the road to sell his plan |
| 14 | Keith Mills and Mike Timothy took to the water , made waves and generally splashed out for charity when they took part in the BT Swimathon in March . |
| 15 | He wanted the Bookman taken to the city as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Radio 1 's GARY DAVIES takes to the streets of Belfast , surprising listeners in local schools , offices and homes live on air . |
| 17 | Standards re-asserted themselves when press officer Daphne Davies took to the floor , wheeling about the boards in a beautiful solo waltz . |
| 18 | Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest . |
| 19 | Central Asian merchants bringing raw materials to the carpet-making , silk , gold , silver-thread , and ribbon manufactories of Amritsar took to the train . |
| 20 | Cranston took to the food like a duck to water , smacking his lips , draining the blackjack , and shouting for the taverner 's pot boy to come and fill it again . |
| 21 | With the arrival of Australian surfers in the late 1960s , the Balinese took to the water like the true temple dancers they are . |
| 22 | George took to the hills and went to seek solace with his younger brother . |
| 23 | On 4 September 1843 , while Hugo was travelling with his mistress , his newly married daughter Léopoldine and her husband Charles took to the river at Villequier in a small sailing boat . |
| 24 | The Cheeses of England and Wales and Zanussi take to the road with BBC Good Food cookery editor Linda Fraser for a programme of culinary events |
| 25 | A new series of the practical ideas and advice show , as Rebecca Pow , Roy Lancaster and newcomer Matthew Biggs take to the road , visiting private gardens and allotments . |
| 26 | Well it 's got to be better than being stuck in a classroom … art students from Abingdon took to the Downs for their latest project … |
| 27 | PRINCE Michael of Kent took to the road in a 90-year-old car yesterday for the annual RAC London to Brighton veteran car run . |
| 28 | A suitable ‘ teaser ’ message was devised , and the aircraft booked for Memorial Day weekend , traditionally the first holiday of the year when New Yorkers take to the beaches and the parks . |
| 29 | For generations the people of industrial South Wales took to the uplands separating the Valleys for fresh air and recreation . |
| 30 | Ms Thomas took to the piano and played the National Anthem , which is how the meeting is traditionally rounded off . |