Example sentences of "took to [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 2 | He wore a thick woollen coat all the time , even on the hottest days of summer when he took to wandering around the garden in endless circles . |
| 3 | Many years ago some Goblins took to living in the caves beneath the Worlds Edge mountains . |
| 4 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 5 | Still trying to make reality match with her fantasy , she took to napping on the beach in the afternoons . |
| 6 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 7 | Frantic Bradford took to diving in the box looking for penalties , but Quakers held on , and there was even the unaccustomed spectacle of possession football to waste time in the dying minutes with a chorus of ‘ staying up ’ from the travelling fans in the background . |
| 8 | Miro took to sketching in the ledgers . |
| 9 | When Gabriel took to sleeping in the kitchen wagon , Garvey did not object . |
| 10 | Then the men took to lying under the mango tree , away across the fields at the crossroads of several paths . |
| 11 | The Indians in America soon took to travelling on the trains . |
| 12 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
| 13 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |