Example sentences of "they took [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The mortally wounded Aenarion clambered into the saddle of his dying dragon and they took to the air on their last flight . |
| 5 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | George was pushed from her mind as they took to the tiny space allocated for dancing in Margaret Forrester 's front room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So together with the fire brigade , they took to the water to steer them onto safer land . |
| 10 | They took to the boxes immediately . |
| 11 | " Hey , " he said , " was it — are you the guy who made those commercials , the ones they took off the air ? " |
| 12 | But the resistance people , allowed to keep the arms they took from the Iraqis , have their own network in the police and the army . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Ace 's eyes were full of mocking laughter as they took in the discomfited expression on the journalist 's face . |
| 16 | The sharp black eyes gleamed with interest as they took in the situation at once . |
| 17 | They managed their conference over coffee , which they took in the lounge sitting in the chairs by the window . |
| 18 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |