Example sentences of "[noun prp] took to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Cozy Powell need lose no sleep as Alan took to the drums like , well , like a Parliamentary candidate takes to drums . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | THE new University of Teesside took to the air yesterday . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Protesters in Germany took to the streets of Solingen after an arson attack by neo-Nazis that killed five Turks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Standards re-asserted themselves when press officer Daphne Davies took to the floor , wheeling about the boards in a beautiful solo waltz . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Central Asian merchants bringing raw materials to the carpet-making , silk , gold , silver-thread , and ribbon manufactories of Amritsar took to the train . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With the arrival of Australian surfers in the late 1960s , the Balinese took to the water like the true temple dancers they are . |
| 15 | George took to the hills and went to seek solace with his younger brother . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For generations the people of industrial South Wales took to the uplands separating the Valleys for fresh air and recreation . |
| 20 | Ms Thomas took to the piano and played the National Anthem , which is how the meeting is traditionally rounded off . |
| 21 | At Susanne Bartsch 's Paris Love Ball ( Ballade De L'Amour ) , at the Folies Bergères , Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier took to the stage together and swapped jackets in tribute to one another . |
| 22 | So Jane and John took to the boats , and drifted right up to the remaining seals before they scattered into the water . |
| 23 | Groups of morris dancers from as far afield as the Cotswolds and the Borders took to the streets in their colourful costumes for the festival procession through the town centre . |
| 24 | Up to 60,000 demonstrators loyal to the NSF took to the streets of Bucharest on Jan. 29 . |
| 25 | And Daffy 's day of disaster was completed later as Lancashire took to the field against Essex in the Sunday League . |
| 26 | And Daffy 's day of disaster was completed later as Lancashire took to the field against Essex in the Sunday League . |