Example sentences of "and [noun pl] take to the " in BNC.
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1 | I am sure they would see that queues of slow moving traffic soon build up and drivers take to the town to get through . |
2 | With two new atoms added to the previous five , the children tackled harder problems ( ‘ How many different CFC molecules can you invent with these model atoms ’ ? ) , and towards the end of the two year trial they had become familiar enough with valencies and weights to take to the Periodic Table idea enthusiastically . |
3 | Many of their posters from the early 1900s through to the 1920s show young women skiing , skating and tobogganing , and women took to the slopes of Grindelwald , St Moritz and those of less fashionable and more affordable resorts , with a zest which matched the mountain air , while their American sisters slid , swooped and glided down the slopes and across the ponds of Vermont or the Rockies . |
4 | By 1935 passenger lists were as glittering as those of the ocean liners ; insurance companies had decided that aeroplanes were safe for their valuable clients and many Hollywood actors and actresses took to the skies like the stars they were . |
5 | An ayatollah had been released from three years " detention and mobs took to the streets to celebrate . |