Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] take to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some people take to the Cup more than others . |
| 2 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 3 | Some women took to the loom , further diluting the labour supply in that branch , and others were able to enter the factories , but for many , especially in the de-industrialising South , the loss of home spinning was a real and much commented-on aggravator of female unemployment and depresser of living standards , especially marked around the turn of the century . |
| 4 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 5 | We all share the same sky and the same passion , which is to see our joint projects take to the air . |
| 6 | The population of Tor Yvresse is less than half what the city was built to accommodate and the wide boulevards seem empty even when the entire population takes to the streets during the great Festival of Masques . |
| 7 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 8 | There were reports about groups of ordinary people taking to the streets , holding hands , approaching armoured carriers and calling for peace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 11 | With limbs beginning to tire only eight boats took to the water for the final two-lap race . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces . |
| 14 | Cloudbase Paragliding are offering you a great opportunity to take to the air and raise money for the charity Barnardos . |
| 15 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 16 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 17 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 18 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 19 | January 19 and 26 saw a combined total of 300,000 anti-war activists march in Washington and an equal number take to the streets of San Francisco . |
| 20 | YOUNGSTERS at Four Marks Primary School took to the cat walk last week to raise £208 for new playground equipment . |
| 21 | In fact the chances for viewing exciting wildlife are getting rarer every day , as hundreds more people take to the hills , bringing dogs and children and wearing colours that can be seen as far away as Belgium . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Baku on Jan. 4 to demonstrate solidarity with those attacking the border . |
| 23 | Nearly 800 crew members with 74 craft took to the Wye at Hay on Saturday for the start of the longest raft race in the world . |
| 24 | Reginald Mitchell died of cancer not long after the first Spitfire took to the skies . |
| 25 | Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work . |
| 26 | Also , how has the irish press taken to the rave reviews for Kelly — with WC94 in mind ? |
| 27 | He then went back to Prague to recruit the first Kindertransport to take to the air . |
| 28 | With confirmation of his survival thousands of Palestinians in the occupied territories took to the streets , chanting " Arafat is alive " . |
| 29 | As news of the shooting spread through the city , bands of Hispanic youths took to the streets in the early evening . |
| 30 | Tullamore Musical Society take to the stage on Friday April 2 with the stirring account of a Jewish family on ‘ Fiddler on the Roof ’ and the Festival comes to an end with the Carlow-based Dolmen Musical Theatre with Peter Kennedy 's hit of last year 's Festival ‘ Clown ’ on Saturday night . |