Example sentences of "took to [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 2 | Only when his party took to wearing black shirts , and ‘ disrupting ’ meetings of the opposition in order to save Italy from them , was there any ground-swell of popularity . |
| 3 | Although he had been a sobering and restricting influence in a Germanic way upon the Queen , she took to wearing black immediately after his death and , in a sense , appeared never to cease mourning for him until the day she died . |
| 4 | He took to hiding some secret supplies of his own in his desk . |
| 5 | My roommate Chris took to feeding these animals other comb jellies , and delighted in watching Beroe ‘ snarf up ’ the other jellyfish . |
| 6 | Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente . |
| 7 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 8 | I generally type all his notes , reports and correspondence , but , during the summer , he took to typing such items which related to Heather himself . ’ |
| 9 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 10 | The Carter boy , Jonathan , known for some reason as Floss , took to spending long hours by the pool in a barely concealed state of voyeuristic arousal . |
| 11 | I took to spending more time with my mother again , rather than shutting myself up in my caravan . |
| 12 | She took to spending more time at Bush House , playing for very little except the chance to gossip in her native language . |
| 13 | He took to spending more time than before at the Hankses ' cottage and his relationship with Carrie was an uncomplicated , comfortable one . |
| 14 | The Stranglers started going downhill when they took to releasing piss-poor cover versions as singles . |
| 15 | Thereafter , however , things became more difficult , so we took to having one of my research students living with us . |
| 16 | Delighted with the reaction ( ie , death threats from paratroopers based in Strasbourg ) , he took to cavorting naked in le tricolore . |
| 17 | He reversed some of the laws on language and education which discriminated against Tamils , and took to visiting some of the Tamils ' Hindu temples , even attempting the odd public statement in Tamil . |