Example sentences of "he have taken to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 2 | This remarkable young man is now so keen to share his new-found sagacity with others that he has taken to signing autographs , ‘ Safe sex , from Christian Slater ’ . |
| 3 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 4 | He 'd taken to calling on Fridays for his money . |
| 5 | Dozing on the plane he felt the smoothness of the assassin 's face in his fingertips , the tumble of hair he 'd taken to be Jude 's over the back of his hands . |
| 6 | Once inside the shed , Amis entered the cage and cast around for the big wrench that he 'd taken to keeping in here . |
| 7 | Cos he he When he liked he could speak very well but how he 'd taken to the road I do n't know , but he was well known er er as the blind fiddler . |
| 8 | Perhaps he had taken to heart Mrs Thatcher 's quotation from Mark Twain : ‘ Never prophesy about the future . ’ |
| 9 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 10 | He had taken to employing Jews and whores , after all . |
| 11 | A judge was divorced by his wife because he had taken to the idea that she was possessed by the devil and gave her a thump or two to drive Satan out . |
| 12 | When he was back at Thorsbury , he had taken to sleeping in the dressing room now that her time was almost upon her . |
| 13 | She disliked herself for what she was saying , for she knew the risk he had taken to be with her . |
| 14 | Despair shook her , her body screaming silently at the pain of leaving him , choosing not to think of the risk he had taken to be with her . |
| 15 | Oh yes , he was recanting on the Exhibition which , for some reason , he had taken to calling " The World 's Vanity Fair " . |
| 16 | Jacob removed the glasses he had taken to wearing . |
| 17 | Sartre records that by 1920–21 , the personal predicament of Nizan 's father had become so desperate that he had taken to disappearing at frequent intervals from the family home at night , disappearances which Sartre interprets as " attempted suicides " . |
| 18 | As for Prince Charles , having declared that he kept an open mind on the subject of complementary medicine , he gave a dissertation on the recent allegations that he had taken to the occult : ‘ I do not play with a Ouija board . |
| 19 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 20 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 21 | He had taken to life at Almsmead with all the enthusiasms she had hoped for . |
| 22 | He had taken to avoiding putting in a middle . |
| 23 | Hector had clung close to Theda , and was even now shut up in her tiny bedchamber , where he had taken to sleeping . |
| 24 | She had not even the comfort of Hector 's presence , for her nervousness upset him and he had taken to roaming again , now that his leg was healed . |
| 25 | Asked why he had taken to the streets just hours before polling , he said : ‘ I had other things to do , as you may imagine . ’ |
| 26 | Harvey had always had a mania for showers and baths and he had taken to the sauna ritual with great enthusiasm . |
| 27 | What he had taken to be a gate turned out to be a wall , the hump on the ground near by a heap of gravel and the massive bulk on the other side of the road a barn whose gable end still bore the faded icon of a helmeted Mussolini and the slogan ‘ It is important to win , but still more important to fight . ’ |
| 28 | He had taken to doing this lately . |