Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] take to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 2 | Still today virtually all insects at some stage of their lives take to the air . |
| 3 | If one postulates an honest customer taking goods from a shelf to put in his or her trolley to take to the checkpoint there to pay the proper price , I am unable to see that any of these actions involves any assumption by the shopper of the rights of the supermarket . |
| 4 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
| 5 | She saw his sister and nephew next morning as she was loading her car with her carvings to take to the hospital . |
| 6 | They are given no opportunity to touch the dead person or put something — a flower , a crucifix — into their hand to take to the grave . |
| 7 | It was the time when her mother took to the couch because she could n't stand the sight and sound of the hordes of women and children with their buckets , and the arranged fights among the urchins so that one or two of their gang could get away with some lumps of coal , which would make all the difference between having a fried meal or freezing both inside and out . |
| 8 | His hair took to the forming of dreadlocks . |
| 9 | Initial returns indicated the re-election of President Joaquín Balaguer , 83 , of the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , but on May 18 his long-time rival , Juan Bosch , 81 , of the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , accused the government of " colossal fraud " and urged his supporters to take to the streets in protest . |