Example sentences of "have take to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a message this generation has taken to heart , and enormous sums of money are now spent every year on washing powders , bleaches , conditioners , washing-up-liquids , scouring creams , disinfectants , fresheners and so on . |
| 2 | It is apparent that the new top management has taken to heart the gravity of this catastrophe and the company has shown a determination to put its house in order . |
| 3 | She has taken to roller skates to speed up her travel in New York . |
| 4 | Cheltenham 's Tony Allcock has taken to grass like a duck to water this week … he won his first national title on the green stuff in the Ulster Games singles . |
| 5 | As we careered down towards South Wimbledon , I remembered other trips I 'd taken to church . |
| 6 | Cambodians may have taken to democracy , but queueing is still an alien concept . |
| 7 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 8 | Converse seems to have taken to heart a wave of stories about the burgeoning 14 to 24-year-old market , dubbed ‘ Generation X ’ by Douglas Coupland , a novelist . |
| 9 | Yet so far they had not prayed ; Amanda Fergusson appeared still to be arguing with her father ; while the God she had taken to proclaiming did not sound the kind of God who would lightly forgive the Colonel 's obstinate sinning against the light . |
| 10 | Perhaps he had taken to heart Mrs Thatcher 's quotation from Mark Twain : ‘ Never prophesy about the future . ’ |
| 11 | He had taken to life at Almsmead with all the enthusiasms she had hoped for . |
| 12 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 13 | Hector had clung close to Theda , and was even now shut up in her tiny bedchamber , where he had taken to sleeping . |
| 14 | No doubt this was partly because many terrorists had taken to extortion and rape , ruining their once-glamorous image as freedom-fighters . |
| 15 | Silver and Buckthorn , with Bigwig helping them , had covered the retreat until , once all were together outside , they had taken to flight . |
| 16 | But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure . |
| 17 | This abandonment of both the major innovations made by the descendants of Eusthenopteron during their colonisation of the land occurs not only among those salamanders that have taken to water but even among some that spend their lives almost entirely on land . |
| 18 | Skiing adventurers have taken to heli-skiing which involves learning to operate an electronic transmitter in case of avalanches . |
| 19 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 20 | ‘ You will please to remember , ’ its secretary , Henry Oldenburg , told the governor of Connecticut in 1667 , ‘ that we have taken to task the whole universe , and that we were obliged to do so by the nature of our design . ’ |
| 21 | The profusion of newer universities have taken to offering franchised versions of their courses at further education colleges , while breaking with the tradition that it was unbecoming for a university to do anything so crass as advertising its wares . |
| 22 | All this clobber you always have to take to school , I 'm not kidding ! |