Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] take to the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 |
5 | So Jane and John took to the boats , and drifted right up to the remaining seals before they scattered into the water . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Cozy Powell need lose no sleep as Alan took to the drums like , well , like a Parliamentary candidate takes to drums . |