Example sentences of "they took [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortally wounded Aenarion clambered into the saddle of his dying dragon and they took to the air on their last flight . |
| 2 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 3 | From a half doze Jane saw Christopher and Francis emerge from the barn , go to the kitchen and re-emerge with the sack of flour , which they took to the barn ! |
| 4 | After killing a number of traders and native policemen , and an elder who had counselled prudence , they took to the hills , where a detachment of the King 's African Rifles surprised them and drove them out , with about twenty casualties . |
| 5 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 6 | So together with the fire brigade , they took to the water to steer them onto safer land . |
| 7 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
| 8 | They took to the boxes immediately . |
| 9 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 10 | " Hey , " he said , " was it — are you the guy who made those commercials , the ones they took off the air ? " |
| 11 | But the resistance people , allowed to keep the arms they took from the Iraqis , have their own network in the police and the army . |
| 12 | They managed their conference over coffee , which they took in the lounge sitting in the chairs by the window . |
| 13 | The sharp black eyes gleamed with interest as they took in the situation at once . |
| 14 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 15 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |