Example sentences of "[noun sg] take to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was natural , therefore , that when the ancestors of plaice and sole took to the sea bottom , they should have lain on one side rather than on the belly like the ancestors of skates and rays . |
| 2 | She found herself gazing , for minutes on end , at photographs of young men in their flying kit , waiting for the command to take to the skies . |
| 3 | Central News South took to the airwaves in January nineteen eighty-nine and tomorrow night we look back over our first four years . |
| 4 | On trial — Fast afloat boat prototype takes to the water |
| 5 | Add the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN masterminded ROLLERCOASTER package takes to the highways and student halls of America , what was once a moulding musical chrysalid on its underpowered UK outing earlier this year has verily pupated into a sun-blocking butterfly of excellence — or so reckons a well and truly won-over ANDREW COLLINS . |
| 6 | There 's no game for Oxford this weekend so the next time the team takes to the field they 'll be under new management … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | North Tees Health Authority 's promotion team took to the streets of Stockton inviting townsfolk to toast each other in vitamin high , but alcohol-free fruit cocktails . |
| 9 | Gloucester 's slalom racing team took to the slopes for the first in August coach Chantelle is a former all England champion |
| 10 | G-Orgi takes to the air from the Dick Melton Aviation strip in Hampshire . |
| 11 | A WOMEN-ONLY bus service takes to the road on Monday . |
| 12 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Charity worker extraordinaire takes to the water |
| 15 | £35m NORBANK TAKES TO THE WATER IN ROTTERDAM |
| 16 | When democracy took to the forest |
| 17 | Reginald Mitchell died of cancer not long after the first Spitfire took to the skies . |
| 18 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 19 | As news of the shooting spread , large numbers of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets and soon some of the most intense rioting of the whole intifada was under way . |
| 20 | Shakespear 's Sister took to the stage to what must be the worst intro tape I 've ever heard . |
| 21 | His hair took to the forming of dreadlocks . |
| 22 | man takes to the jungles , deserts and wild places in search of inward calm and spiritual meditation . |
| 23 | LAW SOCIETY TAKES TO THE ROAD CONFERENCES ON FRANCHISING AND PRACTICE MANAGEMENT THROUGHOUT COUNTRY |
| 24 | Alter two long years of hard work , the Corsair took to the air once again on August 22 , 1976 as NX1337A. and , after the required air test schedule , it was repainted in its original ‘ 15F.22 ’ markings , complete with the black and yellow Suez stripes . |
| 25 | The Army took to the offensive after Wijeratne 's announcement , and by June 22 the government claimed to have driven the LTTE from the east , including their stronghold in Batticaloa town . |
| 26 | The general election 's best dressed candidate took to the streets , somewhat gingerly , on Saturday . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Here is an example of the Regency Gothic style taken to the limit . |
| 29 | The latest firm to take to the courts is Zilog , which makes chips . |
| 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 . |