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He took to drink shortly after his wife died.

He took to the airwaves and streets, taunting his opponents, blaming outside influence, and promising swift retribution.

Despite shyness that he never overcame, he was a natural singer and dancer, and took to the frontman role with relish.

The despot set fire to his house beforehe took to flight. = The despot set his house on fire before he took to flight.

When he learned of eht usefulness of foreign languages, he took to studying English with great zeal.

That day he found two sacks, which he took to the rambling wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails.

A small voluble figure, he preferred the spoken to the written word, and he took to television as a duck to water.

He took to drinking heavily whenever he booked out for the weekend .

madame defarge poured it out for him , took to her knitting again , and hummed a little song over it.

When he knew the usefulness of foreign languages, he took to studying English with great zeal.

He passed a night of grisly dreams, waking once, chilled to the heart with what he took to be a cold sweat.

Within a week Gerald took to spending his whole day with Bertha, and she found the London season much more amusing than she had expected.

No little girl wants to hear about the Wilder men her mother took to her bed, using them till they were spent, then killing them.

The Chilean flamingos had been feeding on a dried lakebed nearby when part of the flock took to the sky and circled overhead.

He's been writing this book for about 20 years, including the two years it took to put his notes on computer when he got his first PC.

After the Master attained Enlightenment, he took to living simply -- because he found simple living to his taste.

That was the mark of the Don's humanity. He knew from bitter experience what courage it took to ask a favor from a fellow man.

Sam is really a natural programmer. He took to programming like a duck to water even before he graduated from elementary school.

The marches have begun again: on May 1st, up to a million people across the country took to the streets, by no means all of them Hispanic.

24 And when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to himself his wife.

Young Jesse soon took to the stage himself, and by his early teens, he discovered that acting was an outlet he desperately needed.

We thought it would take a couple of years for him to reach this level, but he took to the challenge like a duck to water.

"And I, " said Dick, "that never cared a straw for any manner of woman until now, I took to you when I thought ye were a boy. "

He took to walking round with a stop-watch and a notepad breaking down manual tasks into a series of components that could be measured.

This was the argument he took to Mayor Bloomberg's budget crunchers.

In his later years he took to explaining his social philosophy and wrote a number of books.

One day, having a cold, he took to picking up the glass inkwell that was sunk in his desk top and quietly clearing this throat into it.

He laughed at his disciples when they took to simple living in imitation of him.

Soon there came to me a man, whom from his pretty uniform I took to be an officer of high rank.

Later he took to inviting clerics from various religions, including Portuguese Jesuits from Goa, to debate their faiths.

With his formidable connections, negotiating skills and charm, he took to it like a duck to water.

He took to ringing us up in the middle of the night.

Everybody who came into the garden he took to the graft, and everybody said, 'It will prove to be a most excellent pear'

If it had been up to me, I would have carried on the fight for a year if that's what it took to get a vote.

But the lure of a bit of political gain, it turns out, was all it took to transform him back into a standard drill-and-burn Republican.

To such straits was he reduced by his extravagance that he took to begging.

'Dark' I took to be a description of someone's hair, the hair of a woman, and was the answer to a question.

My son learnt to swim very quickly. He took to it like a duck to water.

Dr Hughes did what he could to fend off the illness. He took to wintering in New Zealand to escape the long Alaskan nights.

She had been doing well on her drug therapy, and her fellow patients took to her as if she were their little sister.

The moment a protesting Irish priest took to the circuit, it was clear that this wasn't going to be a normal grand prix.

He took to sending her presents, usually innocuous things like slippers, Day-Timers, picture frames, pen-and-pencil sets.

The cup signifies that His death was the (portion) given to Him by God, the portion He took to redeem sinners for God.

Father had got a cold, so he took to his bed immediately after dinner.

This was the only equipment he took to haunted houses.

Though really, the only destination that mattered to me was reaching what I took to be the dark and broken place in my daughter's heart.

For no matter how much wine he consumed or how many women he took to his bed, nothing on earth could rid him of horrors that plait his mind.

She is so remarkable because since gondoliers took to the waterways of Venice in 1094, there had never been a woman among them.

Then, scared out of his wits, he took to his heels and led a Flock of people in a flight all the way from heilungkiang to Kweichow Province.

Later, he became an engineer and when the communist regime fell in 1989, he took to travelling the world with his wife, Iga.

Last week he took to the wheel of his Soviet-era Volga Gaz-21 car, giving Russia's patriarch a lift.

He took to biting the rose buds now, and tearing them away from his teeth with a hand that trembled like an infirm old man's.

What was the name of that long road we took to get to the prison?

He took to the improved design of the products , especially their novel appearance .

But James underestimated the difficulty of promising multiple titles without knowing all that it took to finish the task.

There was a man in a morning coat , whom we took to be the manager .

The angel took to an axe to get rid of the last remaining pieces of obstinate hard floor until everything was a stream of light.

And in the mornings he took to the sea again, striding against the flow.

The steps he took to conceal the "perfect crime" seem incredible now, knowing his past devotion to the Lord.

Iwan took to the streets when he was 12 because he found life in his home village back in Kalimantan "boring. "

And all it took to get it was a few million years of whacking two rocks against each other.

standing there in remembrance of the efforts he took to unify this gigantic empire.

and I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

In periodical reports we found out that she was always winning cases with the judges she took to lunch.

This was the message, too, that the foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, took to a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

A Chinese engineer would work at Motorola as long as it took to learn the technology, he said, and then would quit to work for a competitor.

So, to the cheers of dozens of his train-riding companions, Mr. Panda took to his knee and offered up a ring.

He took to his bed in May and remained there for two months.

Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife.

Today tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to show that they are prepared to march off the cliff with their leader.

So the director took to the roof of his hotel with a cameraman to get footage of wind-whipped waves crashing over the Nawilili breakwater.

He took to Mary the moment he met her.

It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship.

During the Great Panic of our time, the Fed and its counterparts did whatever it took to prevent depression and deflation.

He took to learning languages like a duck to water.

But there was a significant difference between the amount of HE the Soviets and US estimated it took to defeat or kill armored targets.

"Some Han people took to the streets in Urumqi today, disrupting social orders. This is not necessary at all, " he said.

the tablet he took to relieve his headache. The verdict: death by misadventure.

Everyone took to the front to take a look at what happened.

The blue line is the route we actually took to get to Long Beach Island and the Orange Line is the route we used to leave.

Tommy took to it pretty well, too. Boy found brains he never knew he had.

And I remember with great fondness the trip that my husband and I and our daughter took to China as part of that intense engagement.

The aim was to avoid a repeat of the summer of 1994, when tens of thousands of Cubans took to the sea in flimsy boats.

Yet this result, which she took to be a mutual impression , called falling in love, was just what Rosamond had contemplated beforehand.

One of the big questions hanging over this summer's Games was whether the measures China took to clean up its polluted capital would work.

And if you'd 'a took to me like A gull takes to the wind.

The last time the United States Education Department asked young people how long they took to finish college was in two thousand one.

He took to photography like a duck to water.

Then he took to giggling in a shy, self-conscious manner.

So, the sense of entitlement increased people's judgments of the time the survey took to complete.

On Tuesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took to the air in a water bombing jet to help douse fires in one region.

witnesses took to be a high-altitude rocket launched off the coast of southern California at sunset Monday, officials said.

Virtually all the data that the paper collected in the two years it took to prepare the series was already in the public record.

He took to the stage and signed autographs for fans at the event.

He set his house on fire before he took to flight.

There were women talking, in what I took to be a kitchen, about making provisions for the other campers.

After losing his job he took to drugs and went to pot, his friends had.

He took to authorship in his early twenties.

In Auckland, New Zealand, thousands of partygoers took to the streets to watch as fireworks shot from the Sky Tower.

Ringing statements that the big economies would do whatever it took to shore up the system had real value.

The next year she was given a harmonica and she took to it right away.

Rolls-Royce took to the stage at the Geneva Motor Show in March with a thinly-veiled concept version of its new "entry level" sedan.

Late in December he took to his bed.

If good intentions and good ideas were all it took to save the deteriorating atmosphere.

He took to gardening in his retirement.

Long-limbed with big hands and feet, he took to instruction very well, loved to work hard and never seemed nervous in competition.

Finish straight arrived found the for the design of dining-room, cheer quietly took to let the home rich look.

The children wear colorful Mom and Dad took to the zoo to play on all faces shine with a smile of joy.

Thousands of anti-war, anti-NATO and anarchist protesters took to the streets here in Strasbourg and across the river in Germany.

When she was in her 90s, and living alone in an apartment in southwest London, de Valois took to writing poetry.

A week later, the founder of Urban Prep, Tim King, took to The Huffington Post to defend his school against Ravitch's charges.

Might this be remembered as the first step the Weinstein's took to the dark side?

Central Athens looked like a battleground as masked rioters took to the streets for a second day.

Whenever we had a chance we took to the streets, shopping for Russian artifacts and buying bread at a small bakery.

Even the Mongols, sweeping in off the northern plains, took to the sea in their attempts to conquer Java and Japan.

He took to the girl as soon as he saw her.

This year, many of them took to the internet to call for the festival to be banned.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

I wonder how long it took to wire up her hair like this and twist it all into shape. . . Sorta cool though in an artsy way.

Then she took to the eyes ChaoLi keyhole, see only a piece of hemoglobin, besides what also have no.

Mr Fok took to calling himself "the blocker" as he repeatedly turned down capital spending proposals in the face of mounting 3G problems.

We took to the wilderness, never stopping long enough to draw the notice of our sheller neighbors.

Stuart moved up to my village of Port Gordon, and my family took to him instantly.

I once took to her promise, and agreed to spend with her life, but later she changed her mind.

But they share a similar history: both planes finally took to the air more than two years late and far over budget.

Well, as a good citizen I had simply registered to vote. That was all it took to set the bureaucratic wheels turning.

I could have crawled to Safeway and back in the time it took to make an Internet dinner.

He took to studying English with great zeal.

No matter how small or how big, you were faithful to the oath that you took to protect this nation.

During the seven months it took to put the addition on to our house, I learned many, many valuable lessons.

However, things were getting more difficult, so we took to having one of my research students living with us.

Here, observers analyzed that tariff regulation was really one of the measures that Beijing took to protect rare metals.

And for media organizations that thrive on conflict, that was all it took to generate a major story.

'Remarkable' She then took to the stage, wearing a pale grey jacket and skirt decorated with blue-green flowers, and a matching grey hat.

We thank all those, including those of Britain and the U. S. , who took to the streets in protest against this war and against Globalism.

The political, economic, and military system, the improvement of the rich took to the road for the Tang Dynasty has laid a good foundation.

Her early surroundings were of a highly intellectual and literary character, and she naturally took to writing while still very young.

Mansbach took to his Facebook page to post a complaint: "Look out for my forthcoming book, Go the F--- to Sleep, " he wrote.

He took to gardening after he retired.

Since he took to gambling, he has been going to the dogs.

Since he took to alcohols, he has been going to the dogs.

By this time the hounds were quite near, and the Hare took to her heels and luckily escaped.

This month citizen anger boiled over. Thousands of angry rural residents took to the streets, smashing cars and sacking government offices.

After she accused the farmers of "extortion" , thousands of pot-banging anti-government demonstrators took to the streets of Buenos Aires.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets for weeks of nightly demonstrations that occasionally turned into violent clashes.

Thousands of Palestinian civil servants and policemen took to the streets of Gaza, demanding their salaries, which are six months overdue.

On the right side of the dashboard, SQL statements in the transactions can be viewed and sorted on the time they took to execute.

The Irish took to buying property with such abandon that there was soon a credit-inflated bubble in property prices.

I yelped and groaned but she just shoved my head back down, saying something that I took to be, "It will be good. "

They took to the new business with all the zeal and fearlessness of their seagoing past, lending abroad with speculative fervor.

Then he took to the habit of smoking.

When Jack saw the girls coming, he took to the woods.

After his mother's death, Anselm took to travelling.

They took to the streets and began robbing and looting before the military was called in to help control the situation.

Marcus and I took to calling ourselves the Anthem Guys, a nickname given to us by a player in Fargo, North Dakota.

Then, el-Hamalawy took to the Web and wrote regular updates in his own blog to spread the information Buck was sending by Twitter.

At the sound of Bennet's summons he discarded all concealment, and fairly took to his heels for the forest.

After the train had left the station, the lady opened her handbag and took to her power compact.

He took to "rough male sports" much more than he took to book learning.

It doesn't let me forget what it took to get there and how hard I had to work to finally make it to the NBA.

Last October, the police in Henan Province took to the Internet, posting photographs of women suspected of being prostitutes.

Hundreds of demonstrators again took to the streets in protest against what the mayor claims to be an "invalid" decision.

On Sunday, several hundreds of thousands took to piazzas around Italy to demonstrate "for a country that respects women" .

Soon he took to sleeping late.

I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.

Day, she finally took to be from, quietly left the Sin Temple Traveling in the East China Sea.

Gemayel's father Amin, a former Lebanese president, urged restraint as protesters took to the streets in parts of Beirut.

In earlier incidents, some commercial crew members took to pelting marauders with tomatoes, but that has not proven a successful defense.

One day me and my friends took to the streets, I walked on, his fall, I asked him: did not your ass killed?

A range of individuals eagerly took to the road, writing extensively about their journeys and returning home with elaborate accounts.

Paramedic Martin Blount took to the witness stand and claimed that the doctor had concealed a drug called lidocaine.

To have a good rest is used to 4-year university to be in, which you took to the culture of society have a very good help.

Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the Lord and put them in his temple there.

Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, said Congress would remain in session as long as it took to pass legislation on the plan.

He took to visiting bars.

They struggle with it to just do very basic tasks, like show the latest photos they took to their friends.

A woman informed against the murderer who at once took to the heather.

Liu Qian appeared when the magician shows, the scene immediately took to the joy of a fun atmosphere.

This last misunderstanding was all it took to sever the relationship.

He took to her at first sight.

He gave up engineering and took to medicine.

The thief immediately took to his heels at the sound of the approaching foot .

eg. He gave up medicine and took to literature.

Demonstrators took to the streets across the country, chanting "Allah, Syria, Freedom only" .

Days later, however, thousands of Omanis took to the streets in support of Sultan Qaboos, who has promised reform.

Far more important were the measures China took to speed up internationalisation of its currency.

Two weeks before voting, Mr Berlusconi took to the hustings, and his personal charisma may have tilted the balance.

On Friday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide, including in the capital Damascus, shouting anti-government slogans.

The man took to drinking shortly after his wife died.

I took to you at my first sight of you.

Chinese took to the streets in several cities over the weekend and targeted the French supermarket chain Carrefour.

Thousands of Iraqi Shiites took to the streets to celebrate the death sentence that was handed down to Saddam Hussein Sunday.

But many of those who took to the streets were calling for revolution as well as protesting against corruption and abuses of power.

They immediately took to come around him tightly, holding. (Below) where a bad-tempered child, even hold him twice.

He took to Mary as soon as they met.

Write in your diary about a trip you took to a place with a different culture.

Victims of the gas leak, accompanied by family members and supporters, took to the streets of Bhopal to demand long-delayed justice.

International oil prices rose to a new record on Friday as US drivers took to the roads on their annual summer holiday.

In May 2007, thousands took to the streets of Xiamen in Fujian province, forcing the local government to halt plans for a chemical factory.

WHEN people took to the streets of Tunis, France offered to help President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's security forces.

The children took to their new teacher soon.

Protesters against graft and injustice took to the streets of Beijing last week ahead of the annual National People's Congress.

The famous pair wrapped themselves in fig leaves and took to the bushes after the apple made them aware that they were naked.

The high cost of food is one reason that protesters took to the streets in Tunisia and Egypt.

To circumvent this law, Calrissian took to disguising himself as an old man in order to play in the city's casinos.

As the Duros took to the stars, much of their planet became increasingly polluted.

The party of financial support to reduce or even cancel, party also took to the city to raise the road.

The workers took to the streets to protest against the police brutalities.

Continuous fall since the stock market of Bangladesh, the country's angry shareholders on Jan. 10 took to the streets to protest.

On Friday evening, several thousand protesters took to the streets of Athens to demonstrate against further austerity measures.

But many of the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who took to the streets to oust Mubarak were driven by economic despair.

Tom was floating down the river on a raft when, 1 km lower down, Michael took to the water in a rowing boat.

All the villagers took to the boats to defend their island against the attackers arriving by sea.

Defying the corrupt, inept, brutal generals who rule them, they took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands to demand democracy.

The hours it took to coax them inside caused the mood in the hungry colony to turn surly .

Even after 1992, when she took to disappearing for years at a time, her giant voice went on reverberating.

It is a proud moment for New Yorkers, thousands of whom took to the streets on Sunday to celebrate this step forward.

The enemy soldiers took to their heels when they saw us.

In cities and towns across the country, Libyans took to the streets to claim their basic human rights.

I fretted and took to arguing with myself whether or not I would talk openly with Kurtz .

Captain Nemo's companion picked up the animal, loaded it on his shoulder, and we took to the trail again.

Karyn McConnell Hancock's frantic husband soon took to the media, pleading for the return of his wife, who is six months pregnant.

Thousands took to the streets in cities and villages across the country nonetheless.

As is now customary, flag-waving protesters from both sides took to the streets.

At Geist, a bishop from Ohio took to the pulpit and asked the meeting's main question: "stay or go? "

Asian markets opened on the rise this morning as they took to the news of further bank bailouts in Europe.

Uighur women also took to the streets yesterday to protest against the arrest of their husbands and sons.

After the 70-minute speech, thousands of protesters took to the streets in several locales nationwide shouting for Assad to resign.

Several thousand Paris students took to the streets and held up the traffic.

Aircraft in a variety of shapes took to the air after World War I .

A couple of years ago, some young women in the office took to wearing tops that bared their midriffs.

It's a flying laboratory that we took to make measurements in the region of this molecule.

The charismatic CEO had assembled a team of young followers who took to heart his vision of creating jobs for the hardworking.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva took to the airwaves Sunday, urging people in the affected area to be patient.

Despite a ban on political demonstrations, Mr Diallo's supporters took to the streets before being dispersed by security forces.

Many U. S. graduates face a further hardship scrambling to pay off loans they took to finance a university education.

He took to the woods so that we couldn't find him.

In the Libyan capital Tripoli, the security forces fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who took to the streets after Friday prayers.

You are interested in the average time that staff activities took to be completed.

He was not born royal , and he readily demonstrates the iron will it took to win his crown .

That was evident Thursday in France, when hundreds of thousands of French took to the streets in protest.

Just after Christmas, workers from General Motors took to the streets, following a trail blazed by those from Nissan and Renault.

Finally, you constrain the cover part to the box. This process is nearly identical to the steps you took to constrain the panel part.

He gave up medicine and took to.

Most of Friday's dead were shot in the central city of Hama after thousands took to the streets for the second Friday in a row.

Why feathered dinosaurs eventually took to the air to become true birds is a mystery.

It was incredibly valuable, and well worth the extra time, effort, and money it took to release a product.

Government supporters meanwhile took to the streets to celebrate the arrival of the first shipment last week.

Over the weekend of April 19 and 20, thousands of anti-French demonstrators took to the streets in cities across China.