Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 2 | The Indians in America soon took to travelling on the trains . |
| 3 | Control of the party passed to a new generation — the third Earl of Sunderland ( the most experienced , but somewhat erratic ) , James Stanhope , Charles Viscount Townshend , and Sir Robert Walpole — who soon fell to competing amongst themselves for political dominance . |
| 4 | Once they both switched to speaking in French , the problems were solved ! |
| 5 | The French now took to flying in concentrated , though loosely controlled , groups . |
| 6 | He really took to reading at a very early age . |
| 7 | I even resorted to going to a hairdresser who guaranteed that I 'd emerge with dead straight hair . |
| 8 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |