Example sentences of "take to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pupil also takes to the prospective employer or the university admissions tutor the raw scores of exam results . |
| 2 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 3 | However , their opponents warn that other Asian countries are bound to protest if the Japanese navy once again takes to the high seas , whatever its reasons . |
| 4 | Jane Fowler appreciates her own failings as she takes to the open road with an advanced driving instructor |
| 5 | ‘ I hope you 'll take to a good French claret , ’ chimed in Arthur Iverson jovially . |
| 6 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 7 | Finding out the expectations of clients is important in assessing how readily they will take to an educational self-help approach . |
| 8 | How long does it take to the nearest hour for snails to bonk ? |
| 9 | This is rather like an attitude one might take to the philosophical discussions about whether we have free will or not . |
| 10 | The classic illustration of Churchill 's reverence for Cabinet government is his insistence on taking to the full Cabinet in 1954 the decision to build a hydrogen bomb ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 11 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |
| 12 | ‘ I took to the vice ports in revenge . ’ |
| 13 | George was pushed from her mind as they took to the tiny space allocated for dancing in Margaret Forrester 's front room . |
| 14 | She took to the good life like a duck to water , ’ she added wryly . |
| 15 | Owen bellowed orders , and the bushes threshed as the Welsh circled their enemies and took to the thickest of the woodland on their way to the river valley . |
| 16 | We er er erm in this country have a very bitter experience with B C C I , it was n't just the knock it took to the regulatory system but I need hardly remind this house there are thousands of people who lost everything they had and that and there are many people who lost everything they had and feel that this house has not taken their concern seriously and it 's something the minister must show that the government is willing to pursue these matters , even if it means introducing primary legislation . |
| 17 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 18 | Weavers of worsteds , who worked on a putting-out basis , took to the flying shuttle around 1800 when less breakable yarn became available . |
| 19 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 20 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 21 | With a touch of paint , the ex-lifeboat The Guy and Clare Hunter — it was named after two of its most generous benefactors — took to the high seas of Belfast Lough for the first time this summer . |
| 22 | She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch . |
| 23 | Next morning we were taken to a small village nearby , on a patch of dry ground in the middle of a bog , and on this uninviting spot the chief , an aged , autocratic savage called Afleodham , instructed us to camp . |
| 24 | Once at the Prince Albert Street police station , Amaranth and her escort were taken to a small , comfortably furnished room where they were interviewed by a woman detective . |
| 25 | He was taken to a private prison , built to his own design and whose security arrangements and guards had been vetted in advance by the cartel , situated near to his home town of Envigado , now a suburb of the city of Medellín . |
| 26 | She was taken to a psychatric hospital . |
| 27 | The rigours of testing do not end next week as eight people , chosen by the Soviets and the British , will be taken to a Soviet hospital for further tests , the nature of which is as yet unclear . |
| 28 | In May 1945 he was arrested by the American forces and taken to a Disciplinary Training Centre near Pisa , before being flown back to Washington to stand trial for treason . |
| 29 | Passing through a number of English collections in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , it was taken to a British-owned Italian villa in the mid-1930s . |
| 30 | 1 , that the entire UDR patrol operating in the north of the city should be arrested by police officers from another locality ; 2 , that the UDR soldiers be taken to a holding centre other than Gough Barracks , namely Castlereagh ; 3 , that the interviewing officer should be of senior rank and again the majority of these officers preferably completely unknown to any of the soldiers ( see the case for a re-trial of the UDR 4 , pages 20/21 ) . |