Example sentences of "took [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The risk that he took in bringing the whole Windsor Conference together was enormous . |
| 2 | The revised standards are currently subject to exposure , but the Board does not intend to reconsider the decisions it took in approving the Statement of Intent . |
| 3 | Herblock , the Washington Post 's cartoonist , took to drawing the principals wrapped entirely in the flag , only their boots showing . |
| 4 | as if realising that these were the last days of his anonymity , he took to walking the New York streets at night , staring into people 's faces . |
| 5 | AEs also took to answering the telephone with : " Deller Page and Rycott ! " |
| 6 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 7 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |