Example sentences of "that [pers pn] took to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
| 2 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , that money that I took to the taxi rank this morning . |
| 4 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 5 | He was depressed , so severely that he took to his bed . |
| 6 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 7 | I know that he took to you and I 'm sure you 'll learn an awful lot — and you 'll meet such interesting people ! ’ replied Louise , equally thrilled . |
| 8 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |